Messages in this thread | | | From | Clément Léger <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 0/8] Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2023 17:13:57 +0200 |
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Since commit 61cadb9 ("Provide new description of misaligned load/store behavior compatible with privileged architecture.") in the RISC-V ISA manual, it is stated that misaligned load/store might not be supported. However, the RISC-V kernel uABI describes that misaligned accesses are supported. In order to support that, this series adds support for S-mode handling of misaligned accesses as well support for prctl(PR_UNALIGN).
Handling misaligned access in kernel allows for a finer grain control of the misaligned accesses behavior, and thanks to the prctl() call, can allow disabling misaligned access emulation to generate SIGBUS. User space can then optimize its software by removing such access based on SIGBUS generation.
This series is useful when using a SBI implementation that does not handle misaligned traps as well as detecting misaligned accesses generated by userspace application using the prctrl(PR_SET_UNALIGN) feature.
This series can be tested using the spike simulator[1] and a modified openSBI version[2] which allows to always delegate misaligned load/store to S-mode. A test[3] that exercise various instructions/registers can be executed to verify the unaligned access support.
[1] https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-isa-sim [2] https://github.com/rivosinc/opensbi/tree/dev/cleger/no_misaligned [3] https://github.com/clementleger/unaligned_test
Changes in V2: - Fix wrong fpu assembly function name (detected with llvm build) - Changes the detection mechanism using direct detection in trap handler (CONFIG_M_MODE does not support extable and re-adding extable just for some boot time detection is a bit overkill) - Fix commit order (used a variable introduce in a later commit) - Add a CONFIG_RISCV_MISALIGNED option to completely disable misaligned handling in kernel and reduce text size - Use for_each_present_cpu() instead of for_each_possible_cpu() in init - Ensure that if unaligned_ctl was set, fail to online cpu if it does not emulate misaligned accesses.
Clément Léger (8): riscv: remove unused functions in traps_misaligned.c riscv: add support for misaligned trap handling in S-mode riscv: report perf event for misaligned fault riscv: add floating point insn support to misaligned access emulation riscv: add support for sysctl unaligned_enabled control riscv: annotate check_unaligned_access_boot_cpu() with __init riscv: report misaligned accesses emulation to hwprobe riscv: add support for PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 9 + arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 18 ++ arch/riscv/include/asm/entry-common.h | 14 + arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 9 + arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 +- arch/riscv/kernel/fpu.S | 121 +++++++++ arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 18 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 9 - arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 375 ++++++++++++++++++++++---- 11 files changed, 524 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
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