[PATCH] riscv: Add macros for software check and hardware error exception codes
Paul Walmsley
pjw at kernel.org
Fri Jan 23 23:57:11 PST 2026
Hi Austin,
On Thu, 22 Jan 2026, Austin Kim wrote:
> The latest RISC-V Privileged specification defines new synchronous
> exception codes in the scause register:
>
> 18: Software check
> 19: Hardware error
>
> Link: https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/priv/supervisor.html
> - 12.1.8. Supervisor Cause (scause) Register
>
> Add these macros for future use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Austin Kim <austindh.kim at gmail.com>
Thanks for the patch. Though, maybe it makes more sense to add these
along with code that uses them?
- Paul
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