riscv: don't use global static vars to store alternative data

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Right now the code uses a global struct to store vendor-ids
and another global variable to store the vendor-patch-function.

There exist specific cases where we'll need to patch the kernel
at an even earlier stage, where trying to write to a static
variable might actually result in hangs.

Also collecting the vendor-information consists of 3 sbi-ecalls
(or csr-reads) which is pretty negligible in the context of
booting a kernel.

So rework the code to not rely on static variables and instead
collect the vendor-information when a round of alternatives is
to be applied.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-12-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

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Heiko Stuebner 2022-05-11 21:29:20 +02:00 • committed by Palmer Dabbelt

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