Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 15/21] riscv: compat: Add hw capability check for elf

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 08:51:59 +0100

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:05:39PM +0800, [email-masked] wrote:
> +bool compat_elf_check_arch(Elf32_Ehdr *hdr)
> +{
> +	if (compat_mode_support && (hdr->e_machine == EM_RISCV))
> +		return true;
> +	else
> +		return false;
> +}

This can be simplified to:

	return compat_mode_support && hdr->e_machine == EM_RISCV;

I'd also rename compat_mode_support to compat_mode_supported

> +
> +static int compat_mode_detect(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long tmp = csr_read(CSR_STATUS);
> +
> +	csr_write(CSR_STATUS, (tmp & ~SR_UXL) | SR_UXL_32);
> +
> +	if ((csr_read(CSR_STATUS) & SR_UXL) != SR_UXL_32) {
> +		pr_info("riscv: 32bit compat mode detect failed\n");
> +		compat_mode_support = false;
> +	} else {
> +		compat_mode_support = true;
> +		pr_info("riscv: 32bit compat mode detected\n");
> +	}

I don't think we need these printks here.

Also this could be simplified to:

	compat_mode_supported = (csr_read(CSR_STATUS) & SR_UXL) == SR_UXL_32;