The RISC-V ISA manual used to mandate that misaligned accesses were
supported in user mode, but that requirement was removed in 2018 via
riscv-isa-manual commit 61cadb9 ("Provide new description of misaligned
load/store behavior compatible with privileged architecture."). Since
the Linux uABI was already frozen at that point it's just been demoted
to part of the uABI, but that was never written down.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728210715.17214-1-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
This subdir no longer exists: it was there to document some of the
quirks and paths forward for handling them, but those have been dealt
with as of Atish's recent patch set.
Fixes: 23b1f18326 ("Documentation: riscv: Remove the old documentation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20220329133412.591d6882@canb.auug.org.au/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
[Palmer: commit text]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
This new document presents the RISC-V virtual memory layout and is based
one the x86 one: it describes the different limits of the different regions
of the virtual address space.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for
arch/riscv. In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to
only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been
frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.
We've been following these guidelines for the past few months. In the
meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.
Based on a suggestion from Matthew Wilcox, we also add a link to this
file to Documentation/process/index.rst, to make this document easier
to find. The format of this document has also been changed to align
to the format outlined in the maintainer entry profiles, in accordance
with comments from Jon Corbet and Dan Williams.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Krste Asanovic <krste@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert this small file to ReST format by:
- Using a proper markup for the document title;
- marking a code block as such;
- use tags for Author and date;
- use tables for bit map fields.
While here, fix a broken reference for a document with is
planned but is not here yet.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Now that several arch documents were converted to ReST,
add their indexes to Documentation/index.rst and remove the
:orphan: from them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The conversion here is trivial:
- Adjust the document title's markup
- Do some whitespace alignment;
- mark literal blocks;
- Use ReST way to markup indented lists.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Palmer Dabbelt