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    Merge patch series "RISC-V: Export Zba, Zbb to usermode via hwprobe" · 16252e01
    Palmer Dabbelt authored
    Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> says:
    
    This change detects the presence of Zba, Zbb, and Zbs extensions and exports
    them per-hart to userspace via the hwprobe mechanism. Glibc can then use
    these in setting up hwcaps-based library search paths.
    
    There's a little bit of extra housekeeping here: the first change adds
    Zba and Zbs to the set of extensions the kernel recognizes, and the second
    change starts tracking ISA features per-hart (in addition to the ANDed
    mask of features across all harts which the kernel uses to make
    decisions). Now that we track the ISA information per-hart, we could
    even fix up /proc/cpuinfo to accurately report extension per-hart,
    though I've left that out of this series for now.
    
    * b4-shazam-merge:
      RISC-V: hwprobe: Expose Zba, Zbb, and Zbs
      RISC-V: Track ISA extensions per hart
      RISC-V: Add Zba, Zbs extension probing
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509182504.2997252-1-evan@rivosinc.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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