RFR: 8348384: RISC-V: Disable auto-enable Vector on buggy kernels

[Fei Yang]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:40:12 GMT, Robbin Ehn <rehn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_riscv/riscv_hwprobe.cpp line 171:
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>>> 169:     long major, minor;
>>> 170:     os::Linux::kernel_version(&major, &minor);
>>> 171:     if (!(major > 6 || (major == 6 && minor >= 9))) {
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>> Seems that the kernel patch is also there in linux-6.8.y branch?
>
> Yes, it is in 6.8.5. As ubuntu 24.04 is using 6.8 maybe we should care?

Yes, that makes sense to me.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23256#discussion_r1927940652