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From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
	vineetg@rivosinc.com, heiko@sntech.de, slewis@rivosinc.com,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
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	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>,
	Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
	Celeste Liu <coelacanthus@outlook.com>,
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	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] RISC-V: Add a syscall for HW probing
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:10:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+1KPzh9xnyKXf0W@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALs-HssScpGxAN+TBA8PtaVHwJvmudqmXUaSZDFBiu3k4Tb3nw@mail.gmail.com>

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heh, this came in right as I went to check out by branch with this on it
and look at the rest of the series.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:49:35PM -0800, Evan Green wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:51 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 12:14:51PM -0800, Evan Green wrote:

> > > +On success 0 is returned, on failure a negative error code is returned.
> > > +
> > > +The following keys are defined:
> > > +
> > > +* :RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MVENDORID:: Contains the value of :mvendorid:, as per the
> > > +  ISA specifications.
> >
> > "per the ISA specifications" sounds like dangerous wording to me! ;)
> 
> I can replace "per the ISA specifications" with "as defined by the
> RISC-V privileged architecture specification" to try and make that
> more crisp.

Meh was a comment about not trusting the ISA specs, not an attempt to
be a pedant!

> > > +#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MVENDORID  0
> > > +#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MARCHID    1
> > > +#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MIMPID     2
> > > +/* Increase RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY when adding items. */
> >
> > Can't wait for that to get forgotten!
> 
> I know. I could add an if (pair->key > RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY) goto
> unrecognized_key, with a label at the default switch case, which would
> effectively be a runtime guard against it. I opted not to as it's
> aesthetically harsh, but anyone can holler if they want it.

The other question to ask is, do we need RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY?
What's it for?

> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > > index 73d7cdd2ec49..37d47302322a 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > > @@ -43,3 +43,11 @@
> > >  #define __NR_riscv_flush_icache (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 15)
> > >  #endif
> > >  __SYSCALL(__NR_riscv_flush_icache, sys_riscv_flush_icache)
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * Allows userspace to probe
> >
> > That comment looks chopped off midway through.
> 
> Whoops yes I

If you could flesh it

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-15 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06 20:14 [PATCH v2 0/6] RISC-V Hardware Probing User Interface Evan Green
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] RISC-V: Move struct riscv_cpuinfo to new header Evan Green
2023-02-14 21:38   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-14 21:57     ` Evan Green
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] RISC-V: Add a syscall for HW probing Evan Green
2023-02-07  6:13   ` Greg KH
2023-02-07  6:32     ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-09 17:09       ` Evan Green
2023-02-09 17:13         ` Greg KH
2023-02-09 17:22           ` Jessica Clarke
2023-02-10  6:48             ` Greg KH
2023-02-09 18:41           ` Evan Green
2023-02-10  6:50             ` Greg KH
2023-02-07 23:16   ` kernel test robot
2023-02-14 23:51   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-15  8:04     ` Andrew Jones
2023-02-15 20:49     ` Evan Green
2023-02-15 21:10       ` Conor Dooley [this message]
2023-02-15  9:56   ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-15 21:14     ` Evan Green
2023-02-15 22:43       ` Jessica Clarke
2023-02-16 13:28         ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-16 23:18           ` Evan Green
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] RISC-V: hwprobe: Add support for RISCV_HWPROBE_BASE_BEHAVIOR_IMA Evan Green
2023-02-15 21:25   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-15 22:09   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] dt-bindings: Add RISC-V misaligned access performance Evan Green
2023-02-06 21:49   ` Rob Herring
2023-02-07 17:05   ` Rob Herring
2023-02-08 12:45     ` David Laight
2023-02-09 16:51       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-02-28 14:56         ` Rob Herring
2023-02-14 21:26   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-15 20:50     ` Evan Green
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] RISC-V: hwprobe: Support probing of " Evan Green
2023-02-07  7:02   ` kernel test robot
2023-02-15 21:57   ` Conor Dooley
2023-02-18  0:15     ` Evan Green
2023-02-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: Test the new RISC-V hwprobe interface Evan Green
2023-02-06 21:27   ` Mark Brown
2023-02-09 18:44     ` Evan Green
2023-02-06 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] RISC-V Hardware Probing User Interface Jessica Clarke
2023-02-06 22:47   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-09 16:56     ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-02-06 22:32 ` Conor Dooley

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