History log of /linux-master/arch/riscv/kernel/alternative.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# be5e8872 22-Feb-2024 Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>

riscv: errata: Rename defines for Andes

Use "ANDES" rather than "ANDESTECH" to unify the naming
convention with directory, file names, Kconfig options
and other definitions.

Signed-off-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Charles Ci-Jyun Wu <dminus@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <ycliang@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222083946.3977135-2-peterlin@andestech.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# e021ae7f 18-Aug-2023 Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>

riscv: errata: Add Andes alternative ports

Add required ports of the Alternative scheme for Andes CPU cores.

I/O Coherence Port (IOCP) provides an AXI interface for connecting external
non-caching masters, such as DMA controllers. IOCP is a specification
option and is disabled on the Renesas RZ/Five SoC due to this reason cache
management needs a software workaround.

Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> # tyre-kicking on a d1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818135723.80612-3-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# f2d14bc4 18-Aug-2023 Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>

RISC-V: alternative: Remove feature_probe_func

Now that we're testing unaligned memory copy and making that
determination generically, there are no more users of the vendor
feature_probe_func(). While I think it's probably going to need to come
back, there are no users right now, so let's remove it until it's
needed.

Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818194136.4084400-3-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# bb3f8948 20-Apr-2023 Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>

RISC-V: hwprobe: Remove __init on probe_vendor_features()

probe_vendor_features() is now called from smp_callin(), which is not
__init code and runs during cpu hotplug events. Remove the
__init_or_module decoration from it and the functions it calls to avoid
walking into outer space.

Fixes: 62a31d6e38bd ("RISC-V: hwprobe: Support probing of misaligned access performance")
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230420194934.1871356-1-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# 62a31d6e 07-Apr-2023 Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>

RISC-V: hwprobe: Support probing of misaligned access performance

This allows userspace to select various routines to use based on the
performance of misaligned access on the target hardware.

Rather than adding DT bindings, this change taps into the alternatives
mechanism used to probe CPU errata. Add a new function pointer alongside
the vendor-specific errata_patch_func() that probes for desirable errata
(otherwise known as "features"). Unlike the errata_patch_func(), this
function is called on each CPU as it comes up, so it can save
feature information per-CPU.

The T-head C906 has fast unaligned access, both as defined by GCC [1],
and in performing a basic benchmark, which determined that byte copies
are >50% slower than a misaligned word copy of the same data size (source
for this test at [2]):

bytecopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 31664899 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 5180919 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 1 took 13416949 us

[1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/riscv/riscv.cc#L353
[2] https://pastebin.com/EPXvDHSW

Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-5-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# 91612cfb 15-Jan-2023 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>

riscv: alternative: proceed one more instruction for auipc/jalr pair

If we patched auipc + jalr pair, we'd better proceed one more
instruction. Andrew pointed out "There's not a problem now, since
we're only adding a fixup for jal, not jalr, but we should
future-proof this and there's no reason to revisit an already fixed-up
instruction anyway."

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230115162811.3146-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# cabfd146 28-Jan-2023 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>

riscv: alternative: patch alternatives in the vDSO

Make it possible to use alternatives in the vDSO, so that better
implementations can be used if possible.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230128172856.3814-11-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# 9d5567cc 13-Jan-2023 Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>

riscv: fix jal offsets in patched alternatives

Alternatives live in a different section, so offsets used by jal
instruction will point to wrong locations after the patch got applied.

Similar to arm64, adjust the location to consider that offset.

Co-developed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230113212205.3534622-1-heiko@sntech.de
Fixes: 27c653c06505 ("RISC-V: fix auipc-jalr addresses in patched alternatives")
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# 27c653c0 23-Dec-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>

RISC-V: fix auipc-jalr addresses in patched alternatives

Alternatives live in a different section, so addresses used by call
functions will point to wrong locations after the patch got applied.

Similar to arm64, adjust the location to consider that offset.

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221223221332.4127602-13-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# b684001a 26-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: make patch-function pointer more generic in cpu_manufacturer_info struct

During review the naming of the function-pointer was called
confusing as the vendor id is just one of three inputs for
the patching and indeed it serves no real purpose, as with
recent changes the function pointer is not a static
global element anymore, so drop the "vendor_" prefix.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220526205646.258337-4-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# a35707c3 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head

Some current cpus based on T-Head cores implement memory-types
way different than described in the svpbmt spec even going
so far as using PTE bits marked as reserved.

Add the T-Head vendor-id and necessary errata code to
replace the affected instructions.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-13-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# 1745cfaf 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

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

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>


# ff689fd2 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: add RISC-V Svpbmt extension support

Svpbmt (the S should be capitalized) is the
"Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types" extension
that specifies attributes for cacheability, idempotency
and ordering.

The relevant settings are done in special bits in PTEs:

Here is the svpbmt PTE format:
| 63 | 62-61 | 60-8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
N MT RSW D A G U X W R V
^

Of the Reserved bits [63:54] in a leaf PTE, the high bit is already
allocated (as the N bit), so bits [62:61] are used as the MT (aka
MemType) field. This field specifies one of three memory types that
are close equivalents (or equivalent in effect) to the three main x86
and ARMv8 memory types - as shown in the following table.

RISC-V
Encoding &
MemType RISC-V Description
---------- ------------------------------------------------
00 - PMA Normal Cacheable, No change to implied PMA memory type
01 - NC Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered Main Memory
10 - IO Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered I/O memory
11 - Rsvd Reserved for future standard use

As the extension will not be present on all implementations,
implement a method to handle cpufeatures via alternatives
to not incur runtime penalties on cpu variants not supporting
specific extensions and patch relevant code parts at runtime.

Co-developed-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Co-developed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
[moved to use the alternatives mechanism]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-10-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# a8e91016 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: implement module alternatives

This allows alternatives to also be applied when loading modules
and follows the implementation of other architectures (e.g. arm64).

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-4-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# d14ca1f8 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: allow different stages with alternatives

Future features may need to be applied at a different
time during boot, so allow defining stages for alternatives
and handling them differently depending on the stage.

Also make the alternatives-location more flexible so that
future stages may provide their own location.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-3-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>


# e64f737a 11-May-2022 Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>

riscv: integrate alternatives better into the main architecture

Right now the alternatives need to be explicitly enabled and
erratas are limited to SiFive ones.

We want to use alternatives not only for patching soc erratas,
but in the future also for handling different behaviour depending
on the existence of future extensions.

So move the core alternatives over to the kernel subdirectory
and move the CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE to be a hidden symbol
which we expect relevant erratas and extensions to just select
if needed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-2-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>