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2022-05-11	riscv: integrate alternatives better into the main architecture	Heiko Stuebner
	Right now the alternatives need to be explicitly enabled and erratas are limited to SiFive ones. We want to use alternatives not only for patching soc erratas, but in the future also for handling different behaviour depending on the existence of future extensions. So move the core alternatives over to the kernel subdirectory and move the CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE to be a hidden symbol which we expect relevant erratas and extensions to just select if needed. Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-2-heiko@sntech.de Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-01-09	riscv: errata: alternative: mark vendor_patch_func __initdata	Jisheng Zhang
	The function pointer vendor_patch_func is only used during init, so mark it as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2021-04-26	riscv: sifive: Add SiFive alternative ports	Vincent Chen
	Add required ports of the Alternative scheme for SiFive. Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
2021-04-26	riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution	Vincent Chen
	Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU topology. Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase, so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once. This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE". Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>