Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> says:

Here's my attempt at fixing both the use of an FPU on XIP kernels and
the issue that Jason ran into where CONFIG_FPU, which needs the
alternatives frame work for has_fpu() checks, could be enabled without
the alternatives actually being present.

For the former, a "slow" fallback that does not use alternatives is
added to riscv_has_extension_[un]likely() that can be used with XIP.
Obviously, we want to make use of Jisheng's alternatives based approach
where possible, so any users of riscv_has_extension_[un]likely() will
want to make sure that they select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE.
If they don't however, they'll hit the fallback path which (should,
sparing a silly mistake from me!) behave in the same way, thus
succeeding silently. Sounds like a

To prevent "depends on !XIP_KERNEL; select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE" spreading
like the plague through the various places that want to check for the
presence of extensions, and sidestep the potential silent "success"
mentioned above, all users RISCV_ALTERNATIVE are converted from selects
to dependencies, with the option being selected for all !XIP_KERNEL
builds.

I know that the VDSO was a key place that Jisheng wanted to use the new
helper rather than static branches, and I think the fallback path
should not cause issues there.

See the thread at [1] for the prior discussion.

1 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230128172856.3814-1-jszhang@kernel.org/T/#m21390d570997145d31dd8bb95002fd61f99c6573

[Palmer: these were also merged into fixes, but there's a cleanup that
depends on the merge so I'm taking it into for-next as well.]

* b4-shazam-merge:
  RISC-V: always select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE for non-xip kernels
  RISC-V: add non-alternative fallback for riscv_has_extension_[un]likely()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324100538.3514663-1-conor.dooley@microchip.comSigned-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

* commit '1ee7fc3f':
  RISC-V: always select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE for non-xip kernels
  RISC-V: add non-alternative fallback for riscv_has_extension_[un]likely()