The function would fail when it detects the calling hart's vlen doesn't match the first one's. The boot hart is the first hart calling this function during riscv_fill_hwcap, so it is impossible to fail here. Add a comment about this behavior. Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changelog v2: - update the comment (Conor) --- arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c index 3ed2359eae35..d22b12072579 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -683,6 +683,10 @@ void __init riscv_fill_hwcap(void) } if (elf_hwcap & COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_V) { + /* + * This callsite can't fail here. It cannot fail when called on + * the boot hart. + */ riscv_v_setup_vsize(); /* * ISA string in device tree might have 'v' flag, but -- 2.44.0.rc2