arm64: cpufeature: Fix the sign of feature bits
There is a confusion on whether the values of a feature are signed or not in ARM. This is not clearly mentioned in the ARM ARM either. We have dealt most of the bits as signed so far, and marked the rest as unsigned explicitly. This fixed in ARM ARM and will be rolled out soon. Here is the criteria in a nutshell: 1) The fields, which are either signed or unsigned, use increasing numerical values to indicate an increase in functionality. Thus, if a value of 0x1 indicates the presence of some instructions, then the 0x2 value will indicate the presence of those instructions plus some additional instructions or functionality. 2) For ID field values where the value 0x0 defines that a feature is not present, the number is an unsigned value. 3) For some features where the feature was made optional or removed after the start of the definition of the architecture, the value 0x0 is used to indicate the presence of a feature, and 0xF indicates the absence of the feature. In these cases, the fields are, in effect, holding signed values. So with these rules applied, we have only the following fields which are signed and the rest are unsigned. a) ID_AA64PFR0_EL1: {FP, ASIMD} b) ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1: {TGran4K, TGran64K} c) ID_AA64DFR0_EL1: PMUVer (0xf - PMUv3 not implemented) d) ID_DFR0_EL1: PerfMon e) ID_MMFR0_EL1: {InnerShr, OuterShr} Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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