1. 05 Nov, 2023 1 commit
    • Palmer Dabbelt's avatar
      Merge patch series "Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode" · 0619ff9f
      Palmer Dabbelt authored
      Clément Léger <cleger@rivosinc.com> says:
      
      Since commit 61cadb9 ("Provide new description of misaligned load/store
      behavior compatible with privileged architecture.") in the RISC-V ISA
      manual, it is stated that misaligned load/store might not be supported.
      However, the RISC-V kernel uABI describes that misaligned accesses are
      supported. In order to support that, this series adds support for S-mode
      handling of misaligned accesses as well support for prctl(PR_UNALIGN).
      
      Handling misaligned access in kernel allows for a finer grain control
      of the misaligned accesses behavior, and thanks to the prctl() call,
      can allow disabling misaligned access emulation to generate SIGBUS. User
      space can then optimize its software by removing such access based on
      SIGBUS generation.
      
      This series is useful when using a SBI implementation that does not
      handle misaligned traps as well as detecting misaligned accesses
      generated by userspace application using the prctrl(PR_SET_UNALIGN)
      feature.
      
      This series can be tested using the spike simulator[1] and a modified
      openSBI version[2] which allows to always delegate misaligned load/store to
      S-mode. A test[3] that exercise various instructions/registers can be
      executed to verify the unaligned access support.
      
      [1] https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-isa-sim
      [2] https://github.com/rivosinc/opensbi/tree/dev/cleger/no_misaligned
      [3] https://github.com/clementleger/unaligned_test
      
      * b4-shazam-merge:
        riscv: add support for PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN
        riscv: report misaligned accesses emulation to hwprobe
        riscv: annotate check_unaligned_access_boot_cpu() with __init
        riscv: add support for sysctl unaligned_enabled control
        riscv: add floating point insn support to misaligned access emulation
        riscv: report perf event for misaligned fault
        riscv: add support for misaligned trap handling in S-mode
        riscv: remove unused functions in traps_misaligned.c
      
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004151405.521596-1-cleger@rivosinc.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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