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The unaligned access emulation code in Linux has various deficiencies.
For example, it doesn't emulate vector instructions [1] [2], and doesn't
emulate KVM guest accesses. Therefore, requesting misaligned exception
delegation with SBI FWFT actually regresses vector instructions' and KVM
guests' behavior.
Until Linux can handle it properly, guard these sbi_fwft_set() calls
behind RISCV_SBI_FWFT_DELEGATE_MISALIGNED, which in turn depends on
NONPORTABLE. Those who are sure that this wouldn't be a problem can
enable this option, perhaps getting better performance.
The rest of the existing code proceeds as before, except as if
SBI_FWFT_MISALIGNED_EXC_DELEG is not available, to handle any remaining
address misaligned exceptions on a best-effort basis. The KVM SBI FWFT
implementation is also not touched, but it is disabled if the firmware
emulates unaligned accesses.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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| boot | ||
| configs | ||
| crypto | ||
| errata | ||
| include | ||
| kernel | ||
| kvm | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| purgatory | ||
| tools | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| Kconfig.errata | ||
| Kconfig.socs | ||
| Kconfig.vendor | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.postlink | ||