[PATCH] Clarify risc-v hwprobe RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_* docs.

enh enh at google.com
Thu Apr 11 12:18:25 PDT 2024


These only tell you about scalar accesses, not vector accesses.

Signed-off-by: Elliott Hughes <enh at google.com>
---
 Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
index b2bcc9eed9aa..239be63f5089 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
@@ -192,21 +192,21 @@ The following keys are defined:
   information about the selected set of processors.

   * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN`: The performance of misaligned
-    accesses is unknown.
+    scalar accesses is unknown.

-  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_EMULATED`: Misaligned accesses are
+  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_EMULATED`: Misaligned scalar
accesses are
     emulated via software, either in or below the kernel.  These accesses are
     always extremely slow.

-  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW`: Misaligned accesses are slower
-    than equivalent byte accesses.  Misaligned accesses may be supported
+  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW`: Misaligned scalar accesses are
+    slower than equivalent byte accesses.  Misaligned accesses may be supported
     directly in hardware, or trapped and emulated by software.

-  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST`: Misaligned accesses are faster
-    than equivalent byte accesses.
+  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST`: Misaligned scalar accesses are
+    faster than equivalent byte accesses.

-  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNSUPPORTED`: Misaligned accesses are
-    not supported at all and will generate a misaligned address fault.
+  * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNSUPPORTED`: Misaligned scalar accesses
+    are not supported at all and will generate a misaligned address fault.

 * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOZ_BLOCK_SIZE`: An unsigned int which
   represents the size of the Zicboz block in bytes.
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