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* [PATCH v3 0/2] RISC-V: Test th.sxstatus.MAEE bit before enabling MAEE
@ 2024-04-07 21:32 Christoph Müllner
  2024-04-07 21:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] riscv: thead: Rename T-Head PBMT to MAE Christoph Müllner
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Müllner @ 2024-04-07 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-riscv, linux-kernel, Palmer Dabbelt, Paul Walmsley,
	Albert Ou, Philipp Tomsich, Björn Töpel,
	Daniel Henrique Barboza, Heiko Stuebner, Cooper Qu, Zhiwei Liu,
	Huang Tao, Alistair Francis, Andrew Jones, Conor Dooley,
	Qingfang Deng, Alexandre Ghiti, Samuel Holland
  Cc: Christoph Müllner

Currently, the Linux kernel suffers from a boot regression when running
on the c906 QEMU emulation. Details have been reported here by Björn Töpel:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-01/msg04766.html

The main issue is, that Linux enables XTheadMae for CPUs that have a T-Head
mvendorid but QEMU maintainers don't want to emulate a CPU that uses
reserved bits in PTEs. See also the following discussion for more
context:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-02/msg00775.html

This series renames "T-Head PBMT" to "MAE"/"XTheadMae" and only enables
it if the th.sxstatus.MAEE bit is set.

The th.sxstatus CSR is documented here:
  https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/master/xtheadsxstatus.adoc

XTheadMae is documented here:
  https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/master/xtheadmae.adoc

The QEMU patch to emulate th.sxstatus with the MAEE bit not set is here:
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329120427.684677-1-christoph.muellner@vrull.eu/

After applying the referenced QEMU patch, this patchset allows to
successfully boot a C906 QEMU system emulation ("-cpu thead-c906").

Changes in v3:
* Rename to MAE instead of MAEE

Changes in v2:
* use th.sxstatus.MAEE instead of th.mxstatus.MAEE

Christoph Müllner (2):
  riscv: thead: Rename T-Head PBMT to MAE
  riscv: T-Head: Test availability bit before enabling MAE errata

 arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata            |  8 ++++----
 arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c     | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h | 20 ++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

-- 
2.44.0


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