powerpc/pseries: Add a clear modifier to ibm,pa/pi-features parser
When a new ibm,pa/pi-features bit is introduced that is intended to apply to existing systems and features, it may have an "inverted" meaning (i.e., bit clear => feature available; bit set => unavailable). Depending on the nature of the feature, this may give the best backward compatibility result where old firmware will continue to have that bit clear and therefore the feature available. The 'invert' modifier presumably was introduced for this type of feature bit. However it invert will set the feature if the bit is clear, which prevents it being used in the situation where an old CPU lacks a feature that a new CPU has, then a new firmware comes out to disable that feature on the new CPU if the bit is set. Adding an 'invert' entry for that feature would incorrectly enable it for the old CPU. So add a 'clear' modifier that clears the feature if the bit is set, but it does not set the feature if the bit is clear. The feature is expected to be set in the cpu table. This replaces the 'invert' modifier, which is unused since commit 7d470345 ("powerpc/feature: Remove CPU_FTR_NODSISRALIGN"). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20240207035220.339726-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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