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When Zicboz is present, enable its instruction (cbo.zero) in usermode by setting its respective senvcfg bit. We don't bother trying to set this bit per-task, which would also require an interface for tasks to request enabling and/or disabling. Instead, permanently set the bit for each hart which has the extension when bringing it online. This patch also introduces riscv_cpu_has_extension_[un]likely() functions to check a specific hart's ISA bitmap for extensions. Prior to checking the specific hart's bitmap in these functions we try the bitmap which represents the LCD of extensions, but only when we know it will use its optimized, alternatives path by gating its call on CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE. When alternatives are used, the compiler ensures that the invocation of the LCD search becomes a constant true or false. When it's true, even the new functions will completely vanish from their callsites. OTOH, when the LCD check is false, we need to do a search of the hart's ISA bitmap. Had we also checked the LCD bitmap without the use of alternatives, then we would have ended up with two bitmap searches instead of one. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230918131518.56803-10-ajones@ventanamicro.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.