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riscv: Improve description for RISCV_ISA_SVPBMT Kconfig symbol
This improves the symbol's description to make it easier for people to understand what it is about. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Suggested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220526205646.258337-3-heiko@sntech.de Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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@@ -364,8 +364,13 @@ config RISCV_ISA_SVPBMT
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select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE
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default y
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help
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Adds support to dynamically detect the presence of the SVPBMT extension
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(Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types) and enable its usage.
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Adds support to dynamically detect the presence of the SVPBMT
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ISA-extension (Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types) and
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enable its usage.
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The memory type for a page contains a combination of attributes
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that indicate the cacheability, idempotency, and ordering
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properties for access to that page.
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The SVPBMT extension is only available on 64Bit cpus.
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