Re: [PATCH v4 05/16] riscv: Extend cpufeature.c to detect vendor extensions

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Wed May 01 2024 - 13:19:53 EST


On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 09:44:15AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +struct riscv_isa_vendor_ext_data_list {
> > + const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *ext_data;
> > + struct riscv_isainfo *per_hart_vendor_bitmap;
> > + unsigned long *vendor_bitmap;
>
> It took a lot of digging for me to understand this was the set of
> vendor extensions supported on all harts. Can we add that to the name,
> maybe something like isa_bitmap_all_harts? (I wonder if we could drop
> the vendor part of the name since we already know we're in a
> vendor_ext_data_list structure).

Reading this made me wonder, why is the all-hart bitmap an unsigned long
when the per hart one is a riscv_isainfo struct?

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