aarch64: Restructure feature flag handling
The AArch64 feature-flag code is currently limited to a maximum of 64 features. This patch reworks it so that the limit can be increased more easily. The basic idea is: (1) Turn the ARM_FEATURE_FOO macros into an enum, with the enum counting bit positions. (2) Make the feature-list macros take an array index argument (currently always 0). The macros then return the aarch64_feature_set contents for that array index. An N-element array would then be initialised as: { MACRO (0), ..., MACRO (N - 1) } (3) Provide convenience macros for initialising an aarch64_feature_set for: - a single feature - a list of individual features - an architecture version - an architecture version + a list of additional features (2) and (3) use the preprocessor to generate static initialisers. The main restriction was that uses of the same preprocessor macro cannot be nested. So if a macro wants to do something for N individual arguments, it needs to use a chain of N macros to do it. There then needs to be a way of deriving N, as a preprocessor token suitable for pasting. The easiest way of doing that was to precede each list of features by the number of features in the list. So an aarch64_feature_set initialiser for three features A, B and C would be written: AARCH64_FEATURES (3, A, B, C) This scheme makes it difficult to keep AARCH64_FEATURE_CRYPTO as a synonym for SHA2+AES, so the patch expands the former to the latter.
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