Re: [v5 PATCH] RISC-V: Fix unsupported isa string info.

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Fri Sep 13 2019 - 16:47:30 EST


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.