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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-01-26 18:46:19 (GMT)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-07-27 13:34:39 (GMT)
commit40a1db2434a1b62332b1af25cfa14d7b8c0301fe (patch)
treeb98eadfd8f2e2e98b162a7b0a52635ed9c6d7ee4 /arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm
parentc275f76bb4ce16fd0205da1e15f31b875013678e (diff)
downloadlinux-40a1db2434a1b62332b1af25cfa14d7b8c0301fe.tar.xz
arm64: elf: advertise 8.1 atomic instructions as new hwcap
The ARM v8.1 architecture introduces new atomic instructions to the A64 instruction set for things like cmpxchg, so advertise their availability to userspace using a hwcap. Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
index 73cf0f5..361c8a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
@@ -27,5 +27,6 @@
#define HWCAP_SHA1 (1 << 5)
#define HWCAP_SHA2 (1 << 6)
#define HWCAP_CRC32 (1 << 7)
+#define HWCAP_ATOMICS (1 << 8)
#endif /* _UAPI__ASM_HWCAP_H */