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Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> says: Here's my attempt at fixing both the use of an FPU on XIP kernels and the issue that Jason ran into where CONFIG_FPU, which needs the alternatives frame work for has_fpu() checks, could be enabled without the alternatives actually being present. For the former, a "slow" fallback that does not use alternatives is added to riscv_has_extension_[un]likely() that can be used with XIP. Obviously, we want to make use of Jisheng's alternatives based approach where possible, so any users of riscv_has_extension_[un]likely() will want to make sure that they select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE. If they don't however, they'll hit the fallback path which (should, sparing a silly mistake from me!) behave in the same way, thus succeeding silently. Sounds like a To prevent "depends on !XIP_KERNEL; select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE" spreading like the plague through the various places that want to check for the presence of extensions, and sidestep the potential silent "success" mentioned above, all users RISCV_ALTERNATIVE are converted from selects to dependencies, with the option being selected for all !XIP_KERNEL builds. I know that the VDSO was a key place that Jisheng wanted to use the new helper rather than static branches, and I think the fallback path should not cause issues there. See the thread at [1] for the prior discussion. 1 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230128172856.3814-1-jszhang@kernel.org/T/#m21390d570997145d31dd8bb95002fd61f99c6573 [Palmer: these were also merged into fixes, but there's a cleanup that depends on the merge so I'm taking it into for-next as well.] * b4-shazam-merge: RISC-V: always select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE for non-xip kernels RISC-V: add non-alternative fallback for riscv_has_extension_[un]likely() Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324100538.3514663-1-conor.dooley@microchip.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> * commit '1ee7fc3f4d0a93831a20d5566f203d5ad6d44de8': RISC-V: always select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE for non-xip kernels RISC-V: add non-alternative fallback for riscv_has_extension_[un]likely()
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