[PATCH v4 05/16] riscv: Extend cpufeature.c to detect vendor extensions

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Wed May 1 10:19:34 PDT 2024


On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 09:44:15AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM Charlie Jenkins <charlie at rivosinc.com> wrote:

> > +struct riscv_isa_vendor_ext_data_list {
> > +       const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *ext_data;
> > +       struct riscv_isainfo *per_hart_vendor_bitmap;
> > +       unsigned long *vendor_bitmap;
> 
> It took a lot of digging for me to understand this was the set of
> vendor extensions supported on all harts. Can we add that to the name,
> maybe something like isa_bitmap_all_harts? (I wonder if we could drop
> the vendor part of the name since we already know we're in a
> vendor_ext_data_list structure).

Reading this made me wonder, why is the all-hart bitmap an unsigned long
when the per hart one is a riscv_isainfo struct?
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