[PATCH v1 10/38] arm64/sve: Generalise vector length configuration prctl() for SME

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Oct 11 06:18:08 PDT 2021


On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:27:50AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> >  	/*
> > -	 * Clamp to the maximum vector length that VL-agnostic SVE code can
> > -	 * work with.  A flag may be assigned in the future to allow setting
> > -	 * of larger vector lengths without confusing older software.
> > +	 * Clamp to the maximum vector length that VL-agnostic code
> > +	 * can work with.  A flag may be assigned in the future to
> > +	 * allow setting of larger vector lengths without confusing
> > +	 * older software.

> Why the oddly short wrapping at sub 70 chars?

This is the default for my editor in Linux kernel style, I guess among
other things it keeps things readable even when they're quoted several
times during review.  If there is a particular magic number that Catalin
and Will have in mind I can go through and reflow to that.
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