On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 05:20:37PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote: > On 24/11/2022 17:12, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > [You don't often get email from sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxx. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > > > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe > > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 11:55:01AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 11:47:30AM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > >> > >>> Patch #1 is definitely needed regardless of which interface we pick for > >>> exposing the ISA strings to userspace. > >> > >> I took another look at #1, and I feel more confused about what > >> constitutes canonical order than I did before! If you know better than > >> I, and you probably do since you're interested in these 6 month old > >> patches, some insight would be appreciated! > > > > Assuming we don't go with hwcap, I dont think the order of the > > riscv_isa_ext_id enum matters that much? > > The chief put it in canonical order so that's good enough for me! > > > > > iiuc we're building the cpuinfo string from the riscv_isa_ext_data > > array, and I think the current code is incorrect: > > > > static struct riscv_isa_ext_data isa_ext_arr[] = { > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(sscofpmf, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSCOFPMF), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(sstc, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSTC), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svinval, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVINVAL), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svpbmt, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVPBMT), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(zicbom, RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOM), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(zihintpause, RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHINTPAUSE), > > __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA("", RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX), > > }; > > > > zicbom and zihintpause should come before supervisor level extensions. > > I'm going to send a patch for that. > > idk, Palmer explicitly re-ordered this: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220920204518.10988-1-palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > By my reading of the isa manual, what Palmer did is correct as > those are not "Additional Standard Extensions". /shrug Hmm, by their name (Z[a-b]+) they are Additional Standard Extensions. What am I missing? Cheers, Samuel. >
