Re: [PATCH] riscv: require alternatives framework when selecting FPU support

From: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	regressions@leemhuis.info, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: require alternatives framework when selecting FPU support
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:26:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230322192610.sad42xau33ye5ayn@orel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1884bd96-2783-4556-bc57-8b733758baff@spud>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 03:17:13PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:46:31PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:09:07PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > When moving switch_to's has_fpu() over to using riscv_has_extension_
> > > likely() rather than static branchs, the FPU code gained a dependency on
> > > the alternatives framework. If CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE isn't selected
> > > when CONFIG_FPU is, then has_fpu() returns false, and switch_to does not
> > > work as intended. So select CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE when CONFIG_FPU is
> > > selected.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 702e64550b12 ("riscv: fpu: switch has_fpu() to riscv_has_extension_likely()")
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZBruFRwt3rUVngPu@zx2c4.com/
> > > Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
> > > Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
> > > Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> 
> Thanks for fixing it!
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > index c5e42cc37604..0f59350c699d 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ config TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZIHINTPAUSE
> > >  config FPU
> > >  	bool "FPU support"
> > >  	default y
> > > +	select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE
> > >  	help
> > >  	  Say N here if you want to disable all floating-point related procedure
> > >  	  in the kernel.
> > > -- 
> > > 2.40.0
> > >
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
> > 
> > I took a look to see if we missed anything else and see that we should
> > do the same patch for KVM. I'll send one.
> > 
> > (It's tempting to just select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE from RISCV, but maybe we
> >  can defer that wedding a bit longer.)
> 
> At that point, the config option should just go away entirely, no?

Ah, yes, and that makes the idea even more attractive, as we could remove
several ifdefs.

Thanks,
drew