From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752523AbdLMKJg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2017 05:09:36 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:55402 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751173AbdLMKJd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2017 05:09:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: v8.4: Support for new floating point multiplication instructions To: Dongjiu Geng , catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, corbet@lwn.net, mark.rutland@arm.com, Dave.Martin@arm.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxarm@huawei.com Cc: huangshaoyu@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, zhanghaibin7@huawei.com, zhihui.gao@huawei.com References: <1513160036-41377-1-git-send-email-gengdongjiu@huawei.com> From: Suzuki K Poulose Message-ID: <73019dea-3e2c-8d03-fe1a-6c54527fa401@arm.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:09:22 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1513160036-41377-1-git-send-email-gengdongjiu@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 13/12/17 10:13, Dongjiu Geng wrote: > ARM v8.4 extensions add new neon instructions for performing a > multiplication of each FP16 element of one vector with the corresponding > FP16 element of a second vector, and to add or subtract this without an > intermediate rounding to the corresponding FP32 element in a third vector. > > This patch detects this feature and let the userspace know about it via a > HWCAP bit and MRS emulation. > > Cc: Dave Martin > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose > Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng > Reviewed-by: Dave Martin Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose