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From: Brian Cain <brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com, matheus.bernardino@oss.qualcomm.com,
	pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com, ltaylorsimpson@gmail.com,
	philmd@mailo.org, philmd@oss.qualcomm.com,
	Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8] docs: Add hexagon sysemu docs
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:28:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260611052857.3911981-2-brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260611052857.3911981-1-brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com>

From: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>

Reviewed-by: Taylor Simpson <ltaylorsimpson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cain <brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                    |   3 +
 docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst     | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/devel/index-internals.rst |   1 +
 docs/system/hexagon/cdsp.rst   |  12 ++++
 docs/system/target-hexagon.rst | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/system/targets.rst        |   1 +
 6 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst
 create mode 100644 docs/system/hexagon/cdsp.rst
 create mode 100644 docs/system/target-hexagon.rst

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4ff33eb630b..a2b04177be0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ F: disas/hexagon.c
 F: configs/targets/hexagon-linux-user/default.mak
 F: tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-hexagon-cross.docker
 F: gdbstub/gdb-xml/hexagon*.xml
+F: docs/system/target-hexagon.rst
+F: docs/system/hexagon/
+F: docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst
 T: git https://github.com/qualcomm/qemu.git hex-next
 
 Hexagon idef-parser
diff --git a/docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst b/docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92ebc32dce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/hexagon-sys.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+.. _Hexagon-System-arch:
+
+Hexagon System Architecture
+===========================
+
+The hexagon architecture has some unique elements which are described here.
+
+Interrupts
+----------
+When interrupts arrive at a Hexagon DSP core, they are priority-steered to
+be handled by an eligible hardware thread with the lowest priority.
+
+Memory
+------
+Each hardware thread has an ``SSR.ASID`` field that contains its Address
+Space Identifier.  This value is catenated with a 32-bit virtual address -
+the MMU can then resolve this extended virtual address to a physical address.
+
+TLBs
+----
+The format of a TLB entry is shown below.
+
+.. note::
+    The Small Core DSPs have a different TLB format which is not yet
+    supported.
+
+.. admonition:: Diagram
+
+ .. code:: text
+
+             6                   5                   4               3
+       3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
+      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+      |v|g|x|A|A|             |                                       |
+      |a|l|P|1|0|     ASID    |             Virtual Page              |
+      |l|b| | | |             |                                       |
+      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+         3                   2                   1                   0
+       1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
+      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+      | | | | |       |                                             | |
+      |x|w|r|u|Cacheab|               Physical Page                 |S|
+      | | | | |       |                                             | |
+      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+
+* ASID: the address-space identifier
+* A1, A0: the behavior of these cache line attributes are not modeled by QEMU.
+* xP: the extra-physical bit is the most significant physical address bit.
+* S: the S bit and the LSBs of the physical page indicate the page size
+* val: this is the 'valid' bit, when set it indicates that page matching
+  should consider this entry.
+
+.. list-table:: Page sizes
+   :widths: 25 25 50
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - S-bit
+     - Phys page LSBs
+     - Page size
+   * - 1
+     - N/A
+     - 4kb
+   * - 0
+     - 0b1
+     - 16kb
+   * - 0
+     - 0b10
+     - 64kb
+   * - 0
+     - 0b100
+     - 256kb
+   * - 0
+     - 0b1000
+     - 1MB
+   * - 0
+     - 0b10000
+     - 4MB
+   * - 0
+     - 0b100000
+     - 16MB
+
+* glb: if the global bit is set, the ASID is not considered when matching
+  TLBs.
+* Cacheab: the cacheability attributes of TLBs are not modeled, these bits
+  are ignored.
+* RWX: read-, write-, execute-, enable bits.  Indicates if user programs
+  are permitted to read/write/execute the given page.
+* U: indicates if user programs can access this page.
+
+Scheduler
+---------
+The Hexagon system architecture has a feature to assist the guest OS
+task scheduler.  The guest OS can enable this feature by setting
+``SCHEDCFG.EN``.  The ``BESTWAIT`` register is programmed by the guest OS
+to indicate the priority of the highest priority task waiting to run on a
+hardware thread.  The reschedule interrupt is triggered when any hardware
+thread's priority in ``STID.PRIO`` is worse than the ``BESTWAIT``.  When
+it is triggered, the ``BESTWAIT.PRIO`` value is reset to 0x1ff.
+
+HVX Coprocessor
+---------------
+The Supervisor Status Register field ``SSR.XA`` binds a DSP hardware thread
+to one of the eight possible HVX contexts.  The guest OS is responsible for
+managing this resource.
+
+.. seealso::
+
+    ``target/hexagon/README`` in the QEMU source tree for more info about Hexagon.
diff --git a/docs/devel/index-internals.rst b/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
index 7a0678cbdd3..0471db80645 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-internals.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Details about QEMU's various subsystems including how to add features to them.
    block-coroutine-wrapper
    clocks
    ebpf_rss
+   hexagon-sys
    migration/index
    multi-process
    reset
diff --git a/docs/system/hexagon/cdsp.rst b/docs/system/hexagon/cdsp.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..237529273cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/hexagon/cdsp.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+Compute DSP
+===========
+
+A Hexagon CDSP is designed as a computation offload device for an SoC.  The
+``V66G_1024`` machine contains:
+
+* L2VIC interrupt controller
+* QTimer timer device
+
+This machine will support any Hexagon CPU, but will default to ``v66``.
diff --git a/docs/system/target-hexagon.rst b/docs/system/target-hexagon.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5f7084a6a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/target-hexagon.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+.. _Hexagon-System-emulator:
+
+Hexagon System emulator
+-----------------------
+
+Use the ``qemu-system-hexagon`` executable to simulate a 32-bit Hexagon
+machine.
+
+Hexagon Machines
+================
+
+Hexagon DSPs are suited to various functions and generally appear in a
+"DSP subsystem" of a larger system-on-chip (SoC).
+
+Hexagon DSPs are often included in a subsystem that looks like the diagram
+below.  Instructions are loaded into DDR before the DSP is brought out of
+reset and the first instructions are fetched from DDR via the EVB/reset vector.
+
+In a real system, a TBU/SMMU would normally arbitrate AXI accesses but
+we don't have a need to model that for QEMU.
+
+Hexagon DSP cores use simultaneous multithreading (SMT) with as many as 8
+hardware threads.
+
+.. admonition:: Diagram
+
+ .. code:: text
+
+              AHB (local) bus                     AXI (global) bus
+                    │                                 │
+                    │                                 │
+       ┌─────────┐  │       ┌─────────────────┐       │
+       │ L2VIC   ├──┤       │                 │       │
+       │         ├──┼───────►                 ├───────┤
+       └─────▲───┘  │       │   Hexagon DSP   │       │
+             │      │       │                 │       │        ┌─────┐
+             │      │       │    N threads    │       │        │ DDR │
+             │      ├───────┤                 │       │        │     │
+        ┌────┴──┐   │       │                 │       ├────────┤     │
+        │QTimer ├───┤       │                 │       │        │     │
+        │       │   │       │                 │       │        │     │
+        └───────┘   │       │   ┌─────────┐   │       │        │     │
+                    │       │  ┌─────────┐│   │       │        │     │
+        ┌───────┐   │       │  │  HVX xM ││   │       │        │     │
+        │QDSP6SS├───┤       │  │         │┘   │       │        │     │
+        └───────┘   │       │  └─────────┘    │       │        └─────┘
+                    │       │                 │       │
+        ┌───────┐   │       └─────────────────┘       │
+        │  CSR  ├───┤
+        └───────┘   │   ┌──────┐   ┌───────────┐
+                    │   │ TCM  │   │   VTCM    │
+                        │      │   │           │
+                        └──────┘   │           │
+                                   │           │
+                                   │           │
+                                   │           │
+                                   └───────────┘
+
+Components
+----------
+Other than l2vic and HVX, the components below are not implemented in QEMU.
+
+* L2VIC: the L2 vectored interrupt controller.  Supports 1024 input
+  interrupts, edge- or level-triggered.  The core ISA has system registers
+  ``VID``, ``VID1`` which read through to the L2VIC device.
+* QTimer: ARMSSE-based programmable timer device. Its interrupts are
+  wired to the L2VIC.  System registers ``TIMER``, ``UTIMER`` read
+  through to the QTimer device.
+* QDSP6SS: DSP subsystem features, accessible to the entire SoC, including
+  DSP NMI, watchdog, reset, etc.
+* CSR: Configuration/Status Registers.
+* TCM: DSP-exclusive tightly-coupled memory.  This memory can be used for
+  DSPs when isolated from DDR and in some bootstrapping modes.
+* VTCM: DSP-exclusive vector tightly-coupled memory.  This memory is accessed
+  by some HVX instructions.
+* HVX: the vector coprocessor supports 64 and 128-byte vector registers.
+  64-byte mode is not implemented in QEMU.
+
+
+Bootstrapping
+-------------
+Hexagon systems do not generally have access to a block device.  So, for
+QEMU the typical use case involves loading a binary or ELF file into memory
+and executing from the indicated start address::
+
+    $ qemu-system-hexagon -kernel ./prog -append 'arg1 arg2'
+
+Semihosting
+-----------
+Hexagon supports a semihosting interface similar to other architectures'.
+The ``trap0`` instruction can activate these semihosting calls so that the
+guest software can access the host console and filesystem.  Semihosting
+is not yet implemented in QEMU hexagon.
+
+
+Hexagon Features
+================
+.. toctree::
+   hexagon/cdsp
+
diff --git a/docs/system/targets.rst b/docs/system/targets.rst
index 5b12858b216..5ebdd0f7fea 100644
--- a/docs/system/targets.rst
+++ b/docs/system/targets.rst
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ Contents:
    target-sparc64
    target-i386
    target-xtensa
+   target-hexagon
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-11  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-11  5:28 [PATCH v8 00/36] Hexagon system emulation - Part 1/3 Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` Brian Cain [this message]
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] docs/system: Add hexagon CPU emulation Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Fix badva reference, delete CAUSE Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add missing A_CALL attr, hintjumpr to multi_cof Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Handle system/guest registers in gen_analyze_funcs.py and hex_common.py Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Suppress unused-variable warnings for sysemu source regs Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Switch to tag_ignore(), generate via get_{user, sys}_tags() Brian Cain via qemu development
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add privilege check, use tag_ignore() Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add a placeholder fp exception Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add guest, system reg number defs Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add guest, system reg number state Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add TCG values for sreg, greg Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add guest/sys reg writes to DisasContext Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add imported macro, attr defs for sysemu Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add new macro definitions " Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add handlers for guest/sysreg r/w Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add placeholder greg/sreg r/w helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add vmstate representation Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Make A_PRIV, "J2_trap*" insts need_env() Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Define register fields for system regs Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Implement do_raise_exception() Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add system reg insns Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add sysemu TCG overrides Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add implicit attributes to sysemu macros Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for int handler insts Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for thread ctl Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for rte, nmi Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add sreg_{read,write} helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add representation to count cycles Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add implementation of cycle counters Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add pcycle setting functionality Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add cpu modes, mmu indices, next_PC to state Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] hw/hexagon: Declare hexagon TLB device interface Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Update TARGET_PAGE_BITS, stubs for modify_ssr/get_exe_mode Brian Cain
2026-06-17 15:03   ` Pierrick Bouvier
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Define f{S,G}ET_FIELD macros Brian Cain
2026-06-11  5:28 ` [PATCH v8] target/hexagon: Add hex_interrupts support Brian Cain
2026-06-17 19:34   ` Pierrick Bouvier

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