linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] riscv: Add macro for multiple nop instructions

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Message-ID: <mhng-24b00ffb-dcaa-40b3-8da3-2c2fe26ea3aa@palmer-mbp2014>
Date:   Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:16:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     heiko@...ech.de
CC:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wefu@...hat.com, guoren@...nel.org, mick@....forth.gr,
        samuel@...lland.org, cmuellner@...ux.com, philipp.tomsich@...ll.eu,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, heiko@...ech.de
Subject:     Re: [PATCH 0/2] riscv: Add macro for multiple nop instructions

On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:30:57 PDT (-0700), heiko@...ech.de wrote:
> Some cases need multiple nop instructions and arm64 already has a
> nice helper for not needing to write all of them out but instead
> use a helper to add n nops.
>
> So add a similar thing to riscv and convert the T-Head PMA
> alternative to use it.
>
>
> Heiko Stuebner (2):
>   riscv: introduce nops and __nops macros for NOP sequences
>   riscv: convert the t-head pbmt errata to use the __nops macro
>
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h         | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h     |  2 ++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h |  8 +-------
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Thanks, these are on for-next.  I had to fix up some minor conflicts, but
hopefuly nothing went wrong.