Re: [PATCH 14/19] riscv: hwprobe: Disambiguate vector and xtheadvector in hwprobe

Evan Green
2024-04-12T22:09:09Z

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 10:04:42AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:35 AM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 09:11:20PM -0700, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > > > Ensure that hwprobe does not flag "v" when xtheadvector is present.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 4 ++--
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
> > > > index 8cae41a502dd..e0a42c851511 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
> > > > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static void hwprobe_isa_ext0(struct riscv_hwprobe *pair,
> > > > if (riscv_isa_extension_available(NULL, c))
> > > > pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_IMA_C;
> > > >
> > > > - if (has_vector())
> > > > + if (has_vector() && !riscv_has_vendor_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_VENDOR_EXT_XTHEADVECTOR))
> > >
> > > Hmm, I think this is "dangerous". has_vector() is used across the kernel
> > > now in several places for the in-kernel vector. I don't think that
> > > has_vector() should return true for the T-Head stuff given that &
> > > has_vector() should represent the ratified spec. I'll have to think
> > > about this one and how nasty this makes any of the save/restore code
> > > etc.
> >
> > Yeah, my nose crinkled here as well. If you're having to do a
> > vendorish thing in this generic spot, then others may too, suggesting
> > perhaps this isn't the cleanest way to go about it. Ideally extensions
> > are all additive, rather than subtractive, I guess?
>
> This was the "easiest" way to support this but I agree this is not
> ideal. The vector code is naturally coupled with having support for
> "v" and I wanted to leverage that. The other concern is all of the
> ifdefs for having V enabled. I can make all of those V or XTHEADVECTOR;
> that will increase the surface area of xtheadvector but it is probably
> the right(?) way to go.

For the ifdefs, if you've got a Kconfig somewhere for THEAD_VECTOR,
can't that just depend on the V config? We'd end up with the
limitation that you can't add V 0.7 support without also dragging in
V1.0 support, but that's probably fine, right?

-Evan