| Message ID | 20230224154601.88163-2-ajones@ventanamicro.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 099122af4e29efb41e0db6cc2cd5a07278250e4f |
| Headers | show |
| Series | riscv: alternative/cpufeature related cleanups | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
|---|---|---|
| conchuod/cover_letter | success | Series has a cover letter |
| conchuod/tree_selection | success | Guessed tree name to be for-next |
| conchuod/fixes_present | success | Fixes tag not required for -next series |
| conchuod/maintainers_pattern | success | MAINTAINERS pattern errors before the patch: 13 and now 13 |
| conchuod/verify_signedoff | success | Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer |
| conchuod/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| conchuod/build_rv64_clang_allmodconfig | success | Errors and warnings before: 3 this patch: 3 |
| conchuod/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| conchuod/build_rv64_gcc_allmodconfig | success | Errors and warnings before: 19 this patch: 19 |
| conchuod/alphanumeric_selects | success | Out of order selects before the patch: 729 and now 729 |
| conchuod/build_rv32_defconfig | success | Build OK |
| conchuod/dtb_warn_rv64 | success | Errors and warnings before: 2 this patch: 2 |
| conchuod/header_inline | success | No static functions without inline keyword in header files |
| conchuod/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 10 lines checked |
| conchuod/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| conchuod/build_rv64_nommu_k210_defconfig | success | Build OK |
| conchuod/verify_fixes | success | No Fixes tag |
| conchuod/build_rv64_nommu_virt_defconfig | success | Build OK |
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig index 81eb031887d2..eb087e17c91b 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig @@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ config RISCV_ALTERNATIVE help This Kconfig allows the kernel to automatically patch the errata required by the execution platform at run time. The - code patching is performed once in the boot stages. It means - that the overhead from this mechanism is just taken once. + code patching overhead is minimal, as it's only done once + at boot and once on each module load. config RISCV_ALTERNATIVE_EARLY bool
Clarify RISCV_ALTERNATIVE's help text by pointing out that code patching is not only done at boot time, but also module load time. Also point out that this is the minimal possible overhead. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> --- arch/riscv/Kconfig | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)