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powerpc: Add AT_HWCAP2 to indicate V.CRYPTO category support

The Vector Crypto category instructions are supported by current POWER8
chips, advertise them to userspace using a specific bit to properly
differentiate with chips of the same architecture level that might not
have them.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10+]
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 11 years ago
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 1 0
      arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h
  2. 2 1
      arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c

+ 1 - 0
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/cputable.h

@@ -41,5 +41,6 @@
 #define PPC_FEATURE2_EBB		0x10000000
 #define PPC_FEATURE2_ISEL		0x08000000
 #define PPC_FEATURE2_TAR		0x04000000
+#define PPC_FEATURE2_VEC_CRYPTO		0x02000000
 
 #endif /* _UAPI__ASM_POWERPC_CPUTABLE_H */

+ 2 - 1
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c

@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ extern void __restore_cpu_e6500(void);
 				 PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT)
 #define COMMON_USER2_POWER8	(PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_2_07 | \
 				 PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_COMP | PPC_FEATURE2_DSCR | \
-				 PPC_FEATURE2_ISEL | PPC_FEATURE2_TAR)
+				 PPC_FEATURE2_ISEL | PPC_FEATURE2_TAR | \
+				 PPC_FEATURE2_VEC_CRYPTO)
 #define COMMON_USER_PA6T	(COMMON_USER_PPC64 | PPC_FEATURE_PA6T |\
 				 PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE | \
 				 PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC_COMP)