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From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: rkrcmar@ventanamicro.com, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>,
	ajones@ventanamicro.com, cleger@rivosinc.com,
	apatel@ventanamicro.com, thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] RISC-V: turn sbi_ecall into a variadic macro
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:09:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250624090923.5521a0f2@pumpkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhng-C1133FA3-71C3-4ECC-B3BF-13DC7640464D@palmerdabbelt-mac>

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:53:58 -0700 (PDT)
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:03:12 PDT (-0700), rkrcmar@ventanamicro.com wrote:
> > v2 has a completely rewritten [1/2], and fixes some missed trailing
> > zeroes in [2/2].  The fixes in [2/2] are important for v2, because
> > sbi_ecall doesn't fill the registers with zeroes anymore.  
> 
> The SBI spec says "Registers that are not defined in the SBI function 
> call are not reserved." and I'm not really sure what to make of that.  
> Specifically: does that mean implementations are allowed to ascribe 
> custom meaning to those parameters and might start doing stuff if 
> they're not set to zero?

Or does it mean they aren't guaranteed to be preserved?

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-24  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-19 19:03 [PATCH v2 0/2] RISC-V: turn sbi_ecall into a variadic macro Radim Krčmář
2025-06-19 19:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] RISC-V: sbi: turn sbi_ecall into " Radim Krčmář
2025-06-19 19:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] RISC-V: make use of variadic sbi_ecall Radim Krčmář
2025-06-19 19:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/2] RISC-V: sbi: remove sbi_ecall tracepoints Radim Krčmář
2025-06-23 22:54   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2025-06-24 13:09     ` Radim Krčmář
2025-06-25  7:51       ` Radim Krčmář
2025-06-25  8:34         ` David Laight
2025-06-26  8:10           ` Radim Krčmář
2025-06-23 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] RISC-V: turn sbi_ecall into a variadic macro Palmer Dabbelt
2025-06-24  8:09   ` David Laight [this message]
2025-06-24 12:40     ` Radim Krčmář

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