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From:   Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 12:25:35 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] RISC-V: Add riscv_isa reprensenting ISA features
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:21 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:27:21PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> > From: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
> >
> > This patch adds riscv_isa integer to represent ISA features common
> > across all CPUs. The riscv_isa is not same as elf_hwcap because
> > elf_hwcap will only have ISA features relevant for user-space apps
> > whereas riscv_isa will have ISA features relevant to both kernel
> > and user-space apps.
> >
> > One of the use case is KVM hypervisor where riscv_isa will be used
> > to do following operations:
>
> Please add this to the kvm series.  Right now this is just dead code.

Sure, I will include this patch in KVM series.

Regards,
Anup