From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
anup@brainfault.org, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, johan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5 PATCH] RISC-V: Fix unsupported isa string info.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:47:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mhng-300d37d6-c3a0-461c-b843-ca9b0e2b4714@palmer-si-x1e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910060010.GA6027@infradead.org>
On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:00:10 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:27:57PM +0000, Atish Patra wrote:
>> > Agreed. May be something like this ?
>> >
>> > Let's say f/d is enabled in kernel but cpu doesn't support it.
>> > "unsupported isa" will only appear if there are any unsupported isa.
>> >
>> > processor : 3
>> > hart : 4
>> > isa : rv64imac
>> > unsupported isa : fd
>> > mmu : sv39
>> > uarch : sifive,u54-mc
>> >
>> > May be I am just trying over optimize one corner case :) :).
>> > /proc/cpuinfo should just print all the isa string. That's it.
>> >
>>
>> Ping ?
>
> Yes, I agree with the "dumb" reporting of all capabilities.
I agree: it looks like other architectures are passing info (ie, x86 flags)
that isn't supported by userspace. We have the ELF hwcap stuff for those who
want to tell which instructions they can run, so it's sane to just keep this
simple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-13 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-07 18:23 [v5 PATCH] RISC-V: Fix unsupported isa string info Atish Patra
2019-08-12 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-16 19:21 ` Atish Patra
2019-08-18 18:16 ` hch
2019-08-20 7:59 ` Atish Patra
2019-09-06 23:27 ` Atish Patra
2019-09-10 6:00 ` hch
2019-09-13 20:47 ` Palmer Dabbelt [this message]
2019-09-14 4:07 ` Atish Patra
2019-08-19 10:15 ` Jacob Lifshay
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