Re: [v6 PATCH] RISC-V: Remove unsupported isa string info print

From: Atish Patra
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 04:22:43 EST


On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 00:02 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 05:23:18PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> > /proc/cpuinfo should just print all the isa string as an
> > information
> > instead of determining what is supported or not. ELF hwcap can be
> > used by the userspace to figure out that.
> >
> > Simplify the isa string printing by removing the unsupported isa
> > string
> > print and all related code.
> >
> > The relevant discussion can be found at
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2019-September/006702.html
>
> This looks good, but can you also rename the orig_isa argument to isa
> now that we never modify it?
>
Sure. I will do that.

> > /*
> > * Linux doesn't support rv32e or rv128i, and we only support
> > booting
> > * kernels on harts with the same ISA that the kernel is
> > compiled for.
> > */
> > #if defined(CONFIG_32BIT)
> > - if (strncmp(isa, "rv32i", 5) != 0)
> > + if (strncmp(orig_isa, "rv32i", 5) != 0)
> > return;
> > #elif defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
> > - if (strncmp(isa, "rv64i", 5) != 0)
> > + if (strncmp(orig_isa, "rv64i", 5) != 0)
> > return;
> > #endif
>
> And I don't think having these checks here makes much sense.

Correct. As we are dumping the isa information as it is, we should get
rid of these checks as well.

> If we want
> to check this at all we should do it somewhere in the boot process.

riscv_of_processor_hartid() or seems to be a better candidate. We
already check if "rv" is present in isa string or not. I will extend
that to check for rv64i or rv32i. Is that okay ?

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Regards,
Atish