linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: elf: add .riscv.attributes parsing

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:45:11 -0800
From:   Vineet Gupta <vineetg@...osinc.com>
To:     Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@...c27.com>
Cc:     linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>,
        Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@...ive.com>,
        Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>, linux@...osinc.com,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: elf: add .riscv.attributes parsing



On 1/10/23 15:21, Jessica Clarke wrote:
>>> You also should handle more than one sub-subsection even if tools don’t
>>> emit it today.
>> Just to be on same page, a sub-section implies the following
>>
>>        uint32:len, NTBS:vendor-name, uint8: Tag_file, uint32:data-len, <tag><value>....
>>
>> If so, the code does support multiple of these
> That’s a sub-section, but I said sub-subsection.

The psABI documentation that we reviewed yesterday only mentions 
Tag_File = 1 and doesn't mention the term sub-subsection at all.
We need to be consistent between code and the new documentation or just 
add reference to ARM documentation which covers everything and write the 
general purpose parser.

-Vineet