From: Brian Cain <brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org
Cc: brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com, Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>,
Taylor Simpson <ltaylorsimpson@gmail.com>,
Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PULL v5 05/77] docs: Add hexagon sysemu docs
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:11:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629131232.2487780-6-brian.cain@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260629131232.2487780-1-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 | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
docs/system/targets.rst | 1 +
6 files changed, 230 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 72357df7c4b..5376f7d8d26 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ F: disas/hexagon.c
F: configs/targets/hexagon-linux-user.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 198f155247a..b89bab9b306 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..65866296724
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/target-hexagon.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+.. 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
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2026-06-29 13:11 [PULL v5 00/77] hex queue Brian Cain
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2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 02/77] configs/meson: disable hexagon idef-parser for emscripten builds Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 03/77] target/hexagon: use cmd_array() instead of get_id() Brian Cain
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2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 07/77] target/hexagon: Fix badva reference, delete CAUSE Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 08/77] target/hexagon: Add missing A_CALL attr, hintjumpr to multi_cof Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 09/77] target/hexagon: Handle system/guest registers in gen_analyze_funcs.py and hex_common.py Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 10/77] target/hexagon: Suppress unused-variable warnings for sysemu source regs Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 11/77] target/hexagon: Switch to tag_ignore(), generate via get_{user, sys}_tags() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 12/77] target/hexagon: Add privilege check, use tag_ignore() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 13/77] target/hexagon: Add a placeholder fp exception Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 14/77] target/hexagon: Add guest, system reg number defs Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 15/77] target/hexagon: Add guest, system reg number state Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 16/77] target/hexagon: Add TCG values for sreg, greg Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 17/77] target/hexagon: Add guest/sys reg writes to DisasContext Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 18/77] target/hexagon: Add imported macro, attr defs for sysemu Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 19/77] target/hexagon: Add new macro definitions " Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 20/77] target/hexagon: Add handlers for guest/sysreg r/w Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 21/77] target/hexagon: Add placeholder greg/sreg r/w helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 22/77] target/hexagon: Add vmstate representation Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 23/77] target/hexagon: Make A_PRIV, "J2_trap*" insts need_env() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 24/77] target/hexagon: Define register fields for system regs Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 25/77] target/hexagon: Implement do_raise_exception() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 26/77] target/hexagon: Add system reg insns Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 27/77] target/hexagon: Add sysemu TCG overrides Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 28/77] target/hexagon: Add implicit attributes to sysemu macros Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 29/77] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for int handler insts Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 30/77] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for thread ctl Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 31/77] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for rte, nmi Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 32/77] target/hexagon: Add sreg_{read,write} helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 33/77] target/hexagon: Add representation to count cycles Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 34/77] target/hexagon: Add implementation of cycle counters Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 35/77] target/hexagon: Add pcycle setting functionality Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 36/77] target/hexagon: Add cpu modes, mmu indices, next_PC to state Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 37/77] hw/hexagon: Declare hexagon TLB device interface Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 38/77] target/hexagon: Update TARGET_PAGE_BITS, stubs for modify_ssr/get_exe_mode Brian Cain
2026-07-03 10:46 ` Peter Maydell
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 39/77] target/hexagon: Define f{S,G}ET_FIELD macros Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 40/77] target/hexagon: Add hex_interrupts support Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 41/77] target/hexagon: Implement {c,}swi helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 42/77] target/hexagon: Implement iassign{r,w} helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 43/77] target/hexagon: Implement start/stop helpers, soft reset Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:11 ` [PULL v5 44/77] target/hexagon: Implement {g,s}etimask helpers Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 45/77] target/hexagon: Implement wait helper Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 46/77] target/hexagon: Implement get_exe_mode() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 47/77] target/hexagon: Implement hex_tlb_entry_get_perm() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 48/77] target/hexagon: Implement software interrupt Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 49/77] target/hexagon: Implement stack overflow exception Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 50/77] target/hexagon: Implement exec_interrupt, set_irq Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 51/77] target/hexagon: add simple cpu_exec_reset and pointer_wrap Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 52/77] target/hexagon: Implement hexagon_tlb_fill() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 53/77] target/hexagon: Implement siad inst Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 54/77] target/hexagon: Implement hexagon_resume_threads() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 55/77] target/hexagon: Implement setprio, resched Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 56/77] target/hexagon: Add sysemu_ops, cpu_get_phys_page_debug() Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 57/77] target/hexagon: extend hexagon_cpu_mmu_index() for sysemu Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 58/77] target/hexagon: Decode trap1, rte as COF Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 59/77] target/hexagon: Implement modify_ssr, resched, pending_interrupt Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 60/77] target/hexagon: Add pkt_ends_tb to translation Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 61/77] target/hexagon: Add next_PC, {s,g}reg writes Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 62/77] target/hexagon: Add implicit sysreg writes Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 63/77] target/hexagon: Define system, guest reg names Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 64/77] target/hexagon: Add k0 {un,}lock Brian Cain
2026-07-03 10:48 ` Peter Maydell
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 65/77] target/hexagon: Add PC to raise_exception, use fTRAP() helper Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 66/77] target/hexagon: Add TCG overrides for transfer insts Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 67/77] target/hexagon: Add support for loadw_phys Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 68/77] target/hexagon: Add guest reg reading functionality Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 69/77] hw/hexagon: Add globalreg model Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 70/77] hw/hexagon: Add global register tracing Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 71/77] hw/hexagon: Add hexagon TLB device implementation Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 72/77] hw/hexagon: Add machine configs for sysemu Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 73/77] hw/hexagon: Add v68, sa8775-cdsp0 defs Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 74/77] hw/hexagon: Add support for cfgbase Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 75/77] target/hexagon: add build config for softmmu Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 76/77] hw/hexagon: Define hexagon "virt" machine Brian Cain
2026-06-29 13:12 ` [PULL v5 77/77] tests/qtest: Add hexagon boot-serial-test Brian Cain
2026-06-29 18:28 ` [PULL v5 00/77] hex queue Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-06-30 4:37 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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