AT_HWCAP is a field in the elf auxiliary vector meant to describe
cpu-specific hardware features. For RISC-V we want to use this to
indicate the presence of any standard extensions supported by the CPU.
This allows userland applications to query the system for supported
extensions using elf_aux_info(3).
Support for an extension is indicated by the presence of its
corresponding bit in AT_HWCAP -- e.g. systems supporting the 'c'
extension (compressed instructions) will have the second bit set.
Extensions advertised through AT_HWCAP are only those that are supported
by all harts in the system.
Reviewed by: jhb, markj
Approved by: markj (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20493
All platforms except powerpc use the same values and powerpc shares a
majority of them.
Go ahead and declare AT_NOTELF, AT_UID, and AT_EUID in favor of the
unused AT_DCACHEBSIZE, AT_ICACHEBSIZE, and AT_UCACHEBSIZE for powerpc.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17397
- allocate value for new AT_HWCAP2 auxiliary vector on all platforms.
- expand 'struct sysentvec' by new 'u_long *sv_hwcap2', in exactly
same way as for AT_HWCAP.
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12699
A new 'u_long *sv_hwcap' field is added to 'struct sysentvec'. A
process ABI can set this field to point to a value holding a mask of
architecture-specific CPU feature flags. If an ABI does not wish to
supply AT_HWCAP to processes the field can be left as NULL.
The support code for AT_EHDRFLAGS was already present on all systems,
just the #define was not present. This is a step towards unifying the
AT_* constants across platforms.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12290
