Merge patch series "Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode"
authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Wed, 1 Nov 2023 16:02:09 +0000 (09:02 -0700)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Sun, 5 Nov 2023 14:42:51 +0000 (06:42 -0800)
commit0619ff9f0273b80a5bf14a327f1eb0c808cafdb4
tree4226ba98cba124a0f3edccd35ba1f728d38caf0b
parente1c05b3bf80f829ced464bdca90f1dfa96e8d251
parent9f23a5d2f6b01c2ab91d791109731a0d87ec2239
Merge patch series "Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode"

Clément Léger <cleger@rivosinc.com> says:

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

* b4-shazam-merge:
  riscv: add support for PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN
  riscv: report misaligned accesses emulation to hwprobe
  riscv: annotate check_unaligned_access_boot_cpu() with __init
  riscv: add support for sysctl unaligned_enabled control
  riscv: add floating point insn support to misaligned access emulation
  riscv: report perf event for misaligned fault
  riscv: add support for misaligned trap handling in S-mode
  riscv: remove unused functions in traps_misaligned.c

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004151405.521596-1-cleger@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
arch/riscv/Kconfig
arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c