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Commit 4abb672a authored by Richard Sandiford's avatar Richard Sandiford
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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.
parent fc21e0f0
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