Re: [RFC PATCH v0] RISCV: Report vector unaligned accesses hwprobe

[Conor Dooley]

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 08:54:21AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 9:25 AM Jesse Taube <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What value should be returned when V is not enabled in the kernel, or
> > V is not supported in the hardware? Currently in the code it would be
> > UNKNOWN, right? Is that what we want, or is it worth differentiating
> > "no support for V" from "I don't know the speed of misaligned loads"?
> > Maybe UNKNOWN is the right value, as there are other values to tell
> > you V is not enabled.
> 
> I think UNKNOWN is fine for !V, assuming identical definitions as scalar.

I dunno, maybe we should set it to UNSUPPORTED in that case, but there's
probably some funny behaviour around the v prctl we might need to be
aware of. If the system has vector, we should probably figure out the
actual speed is, but not report it while vector is disabled from the
prctl?

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