linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] RISC-V: Assign hwcap only according to current cpu.

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Message-ID: <20190115135639.GH28946@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:56:39 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Patrick Stählin <me@...ki.ch>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>,
        Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@...-tech.org>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Clark <michaeljclark@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Zong Li <zongbox@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] RISC-V: Assign hwcap only according to current
 cpu.

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:38:38AM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> Currently, we set hwcap based on first valid cpu from
> DT. This may not be correct always as that CPU might not
> be current booting cpu.
> 
> Set hwcap based on the current cpu instead of first
> valid CPU from DT.

This is generally the right thing to do.  But can the kernel even cope
with different hwcaps per hart?  I know arm land and I think x86 as well
don't, so we might want to add a sanity check that they match or reduce
them to the common subset.