linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] riscv: Set unaligned access speed at compile time

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Message-ID: <20240306-football-payday-8c9fa3e17ee9@spud>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 18:35:26 +0000
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@...osinc.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>, Evan Green <evan@...osinc.com>,
	Clément Léger <cleger@...osinc.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
	Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>,
	Charles Lohr <lohr85@...il.com>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] riscv: Set unaligned access speed at compile time

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 10:32:34AM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 04:19:33PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:45:35PM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:

> > > +
> > > +choice
> > > +	prompt "Unaligned Accesses Support"
> > > +	default RISCV_PROBE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> > > +	help
> > 
> > > +	  This selects the hardware support for unaligned accesses. This
> > 
> > "This determines what level of support for..."

Reading this back, s/what/the/

> > > +	  information is used by the kernel to perform optimizations. It is also
> > > +	  exposed to user space via the hwprobe syscall. The hardware will be
> > > +	  probed at boot by default.

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