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and fix all in-tree references.
Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930185354.3034118-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
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Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> says:
The current setting for the hwprobe bit indicating misaligned access
speed is controlled by a vendor-specific feature probe function. This is
essentially a per-SoC table we have to maintain on behalf of each vendor
going forward. Let's convert that instead to something we detect at
runtime.
We have two assembly routines at the heart of our probe: one that
does a bunch of word-sized accesses (without aligning its input buffer),
and the other that does byte accesses. If we can move a larger number of
bytes using misaligned word accesses than we can with the same amount of
time doing byte accesses, then we can declare misaligned accesses as
"fast".
The tradeoff of reducing this maintenance burden is boot time. We spend
4-6 jiffies per core doing this measurement (0-2 on jiffie edge
alignment, and 4 on measurement). The timing loop was based on
raid6_choose_gen(), which uses (16+1)*N jiffies (where N is the number
of algorithms). By taking only the fastest iteration out of all
attempts for use in the comparison, variance between runs is very low.
On my THead C906, it looks like this:
[ 0.047563] cpu0: Ratio of byte access time to unaligned word access is 4.34, unaligned accesses are fast
Several others have chimed in with results on slow machines with the
older algorithm, which took all runs into account, including noise like
interrupts. Even with this variation, results indicate that in all cases
(fast, slow, and emulated) the measured numbers are nowhere near each
other (always multiple factors away).
* b4-shazam-merge:
RISC-V: alternative: Remove feature_probe_func
RISC-V: Probe for unaligned access speed
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818194136.4084400-1-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Rather than deferring unaligned access speed determinations to a vendor
function, let's probe them and find out how fast they are. If we
determine that an unaligned word access is faster than N byte accesses,
mark the hardware's unaligned access as "fast". Otherwise, we mark
accesses as slow.
The algorithm itself runs for a fixed amount of jiffies. Within each
iteration it attempts to time a single loop, and then keeps only the best
(fastest) loop it saw. This algorithm was found to have lower variance from
run to run than my first attempt, which counted the total number of
iterations that could be done in that fixed amount of jiffies. By taking
only the best iteration in the loop, assuming at least one loop wasn't
perturbed by an interrupt, we eliminate the effects of interrupts and
other "warm up" factors like branch prediction. The only downside is it
depends on having an rdtime granular and accurate enough to measure a
single copy. If we ever manage to complete a loop in 0 rdtime ticks, we
leave the unaligned setting at UNKNOWN.
There is a slight change in user-visible behavior here. Previously, all
boards except the THead C906 reported misaligned access speed of
UNKNOWN. C906 reported FAST. With this change, since we're now measuring
misaligned access speed on each hart, all RISC-V systems will have this
key set as either FAST or SLOW.
Currently, we don't have a way to confidently measure the difference between
SLOW and EMULATED, so we label anything not fast as SLOW. This will
mislabel some systems that are actually EMULATED as SLOW. When we get
support for delegating misaligned access traps to the kernel (as opposed
to the firmware quietly handling it), we can explicitly test in Linux to
see if unaligned accesses trap. Those systems will start to report
EMULATED, though older (today's) systems without that new SBI mechanism
will continue to report SLOW.
I've updated the documentation for those hwprobe values to reflect
this, specifically: SLOW may or may not be emulated by software, and FAST
represents means being faster than equivalent byte accesses. The change
in documentation is accurate with respect to both the former and current
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818194136.4084400-2-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for the new "riscv,isa-extensions" and "riscv,isa-base"
device tree interfaces for probing extensions
- Support for userspace access to the performance counters
- Support for more instructions in kprobes
- Crash kernels can be allocated above 4GiB
- Support for KCFI
- Support for ELFs in !MMU configurations
- ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN has been reduced to 8
- mmap() defaults to sv48-sized addresses, with longer addresses hidden
behind a hint (similar to Arm and Intel)
- Also various fixes and cleanups
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.6-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
lib/Kconfig.debug: Restrict DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT for RISC-V
riscv: support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with static keys
riscv: Move create_tmp_mapping() to init sections
riscv: Mark KASAN tmp* page tables variables as static
riscv: mm: use bitmap_zero() API
riscv: enable DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B
riscv: remove redundant mv instructions
RISC-V: mm: Document mmap changes
RISC-V: mm: Update pgtable comment documentation
RISC-V: mm: Add tests for RISC-V mm
RISC-V: mm: Restrict address space for sv39,sv48,sv57
riscv: enable DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC for !dma_coherent
riscv: allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smallest value
riscv: support the elf-fdpic binfmt loader
binfmt_elf_fdpic: support 64-bit systems
riscv: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected
riscv/purgatory: Disable CFI
riscv: Add CFI error handling
riscv: Add ftrace_stub_graph
riscv: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes:
- Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the
generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how
to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people
who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there
- Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
Documentation/arch/
- Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub
... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits)
Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example
input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim
Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker
docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos
docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add()
Documentation: Fix typos
Documentation/ABI: Fix typos
scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums
scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN]
Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document
Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters
docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function
doc: update params of memhp_default_state=
docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses
docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal
docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines
docs: move mips under arch
docs: move loongarch under arch
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The behavior of mmap is modified with this patch series, so explain the
changes to the mmap hint address behavior.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230809232218.849726-5-charlie@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Fix typos in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The EFI stub is supported on RISC-V so update the documentation that
explains how the boot image header was reused to support it.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817130734.10387-3-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
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This document describes the constraints and requirements of the early
boot process in a RISC-V kernel.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Shuai <songshuaishuai@tinylab.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817130734.10387-2-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
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I'm not sure what I was trying to do with the ':'s, but they're just
rendered to HTML which looks odd. This makes "fence.i" look like
"mvendorid" and such, which is seems reasonable to me.
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230710193329.2742-1-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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We've had a ton of issues around the ISA string parsing rules elsewhere
in RISC-V, so let's at least be clear about what the rules are so we can
try and avoid more issues.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAK9=C2Vy-4V9kgnga98tiC3TeHkR2LFPakyBbS8s_h3_Z=ieyQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230629031705.15575-1-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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This is included in the ISA manual, but it's pretty common for bits of
the ISA manual that are actually ABI to change. So let's document it
explicitly.
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619190142.26498-1-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for ACPI
- Various cleanups to the ISA string parsing, including making them
case-insensitive
- Support for the vector extension
- Support for independent irq/softirq stacks
- Our CPU DT binding now has "unevaluatedProperties: false"
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.5-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (78 commits)
riscv: hibernate: remove WARN_ON in save_processor_state
dt-bindings: riscv: cpus: switch to unevaluatedProperties: false
dt-bindings: riscv: cpus: add a ref the common cpu schema
riscv: stack: Add config of thread stack size
riscv: stack: Support HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK
riscv: stack: Support HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
RISC-V: always report presence of extensions formerly part of the base ISA
dt-bindings: riscv: explicitly mention assumption of Zicntr & Zihpm support
RISC-V: remove decrement/increment dance in ISA string parser
RISC-V: rework comments in ISA string parser
RISC-V: validate riscv,isa at boot, not during ISA string parsing
RISC-V: split early & late of_node to hartid mapping
RISC-V: simplify register width check in ISA string parsing
perf: RISC-V: Limit the number of counters returned from SBI
riscv: replace deprecated scall with ecall
riscv: uprobes: Restore thread.bad_cause
riscv: mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first
riscv: mm: Pre-allocate PGD entries for vmalloc/modules area
RISC-V: hwprobe: Expose Zba, Zbb, and Zbs
RISC-V: Track ISA extensions per hart
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Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> says:
This change detects the presence of Zba, Zbb, and Zbs extensions and exports
them per-hart to userspace via the hwprobe mechanism. Glibc can then use
these in setting up hwcaps-based library search paths.
There's a little bit of extra housekeeping here: the first change adds
Zba and Zbs to the set of extensions the kernel recognizes, and the second
change starts tracking ISA features per-hart (in addition to the ANDed
mask of features across all harts which the kernel uses to make
decisions). Now that we track the ISA information per-hart, we could
even fix up /proc/cpuinfo to accurately report extension per-hart,
though I've left that out of this series for now.
* b4-shazam-merge:
RISC-V: hwprobe: Expose Zba, Zbb, and Zbs
RISC-V: Track ISA extensions per hart
RISC-V: Add Zba, Zbs extension probing
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509182504.2997252-1-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Add two new bits to the IMA_EXT_0 key for ZBA, ZBB, and ZBS extensions.
These are accurately reported per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509182504.2997252-4-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Palmer suggested at some point, not sure if it was in one of the
weekly linux-riscv syncs, or a conversation at FOSDEM, that we
should document the role of the automation running on our patchwork
instance plays in patch acceptance.
Add a short note to the patch-acceptance document to that end.
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606-rehab-monsoon-12c17bbe08e3@wendy
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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This patch add a brief documentation of the userspace interface in
regard to the RISC-V Vector extension.
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605110724.21391-26-andy.chiu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Probing kernel support for Vector extension is available now. This only
add detection for V only. Extenions like Zvfh, Zk are not in this scope.
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605110724.21391-4-andy.chiu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for runtime detection of the Svnapot extension
- Support for Zicboz when clearing pages
- We've moved to GENERIC_ENTRY
- Support for !MMU on rv32 systems
- The linear region is now mapped via huge pages
- Support for building relocatable kernels
- Support for the hwprobe interface
- Various fixes and cleanups throughout the tree
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.4-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (57 commits)
RISC-V: hwprobe: Explicity check for -1 in vdso init
RISC-V: hwprobe: There can only be one first
riscv: Allow to downgrade paging mode from the command line
dt-bindings: riscv: add sv57 mmu-type
RISC-V: hwprobe: Remove __init on probe_vendor_features()
riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init
riscv: Check relocations at compile time
powerpc: Move script to check relocations at compile time in scripts/
riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
riscv: Move .rela.dyn outside of init to avoid empty relocations
riscv: Prepare EFI header for relocatable kernels
riscv: Unconditionnally select KASAN_VMALLOC if KASAN
riscv: Fix ptdump when KASAN is enabled
riscv: Fix EFI stub usage of KASAN instrumented strcmp function
riscv: Move DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA to the kernel address space
riscv: Rework kasan population functions
riscv: Split early and final KASAN population functions
riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping
riscv: Move the linear mapping creation in its own function
riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable
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This allows userspace to select various routines to use based on the
performance of misaligned access on the target hardware.
Rather than adding DT bindings, this change taps into the alternatives
mechanism used to probe CPU errata. Add a new function pointer alongside
the vendor-specific errata_patch_func() that probes for desirable errata
(otherwise known as "features"). Unlike the errata_patch_func(), this
function is called on each CPU as it comes up, so it can save
feature information per-CPU.
The T-head C906 has fast unaligned access, both as defined by GCC [1],
and in performing a basic benchmark, which determined that byte copies
are >50% slower than a misaligned word copy of the same data size (source
for this test at [2]):
bytecopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 31664899 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 5180919 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 1 took 13416949 us
[1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/riscv/riscv.cc#L353
[2] https://pastebin.com/EPXvDHSW
Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-5-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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We have an implicit set of base behaviors that userspace depends on,
which are mostly defined in various ISA specifications.
Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-4-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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We don't have enough space for these all in ELF_HWCAP{,2} and there's no
system call that quite does this, so let's just provide an arch-specific
one to probe for hardware capabilities. This currently just provides
m{arch,imp,vendor}id, but with the key-value pairs we can pass more in
the future.
Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-3-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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riscv establishes 2 virtual mappings:
- early_pg_dir maps the kernel which allows to discover the system
memory
- swapper_pg_dir installs the final mapping (linear mapping included)
We used to map the dtb in early_pg_dir using DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA, and this
mapping was not carried over in swapper_pg_dir. It happens that
early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() must be called before swapper_pg_dir is
setup otherwise we could allocate reserved memory defined in the dtb.
And this function initializes reserved_mem variable with addresses that
lie in the early_pg_dir dtb mapping: when those addresses are reused
with swapper_pg_dir, this mapping does not exist and then we trap.
The previous "fix" was incorrect as early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem()
must be called before swapper_pg_dir is set up otherwise we could
allocate in reserved memory defined in the dtb.
So move the dtb mapping in the fixmap region which is established in
early_pg_dir and handed over to swapper_pg_dir.
Fixes: 922b0375fc93 ("riscv: Fix memblock reservation for device tree blob")
Fixes: 8f3a2b4a96dc ("RISC-V: Move DT mapping outof fixmap")
Fixes: 50e63dd8ed92 ("riscv: fix reserved memory setup")
Reported-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/f8e67f82-103d-156c-deb0-d6d6e2756f5e@microchip.com/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329081932.79831-2-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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When adding the ISA string ordering rules, I didn't sufficiently indent
one of the list items.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/202301300743.bp7Dpazv-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: f07b2b3f9d47 ("Documentation: riscv: add a section about ISA string ordering in /proc/cpuinfo")
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129235701.2393241-1-conor@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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This cleans up the ISA string handling to more closely match a version
of the ISA spec. This is visible in /proc/cpuinfo and the ordering
changes may break something in userspace, but these orderings have
changed before without issues so with any luck that's still the case.
This also adds documentation so userspace has a better idea of what is
intended when it comes to compatibility for /proc/cpuinfo, which should
help everyone as this will likely keep changing.
* b4-shazam-merge:
Documentation: riscv: add a section about ISA string ordering in /proc/cpuinfo
RISC-V: resort all extensions in consistent orders
RISC-V: clarify ISA string ordering rules in cpu.c
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221205144525.2148448-1-conor.dooley@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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The RISC-V specs are permissive in what they allow as the ISA string,
but how we output this to userspace in /proc/cpuinfo is quasi uABI.
Formalise this as part of the uABI, by documenting the list of rules
we use at this point in time.
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221205144525.2148448-4-conor.dooley@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for the T-Head PMU via the perf subsystem
- ftrace support for rv32
- Support for non-volatile memory devices
- Various fixes and cleanups
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.2-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (52 commits)
Documentation: RISC-V: patch-acceptance: s/implementor/implementer
Documentation: RISC-V: Mention the UEFI Standards
Documentation: RISC-V: Allow patches for non-standard behavior
Documentation: RISC-V: Fix a typo in patch-acceptance
riscv: Fixup compile error with !MMU
riscv: Fix P4D_SHIFT definition for 3-level page table mode
riscv: Apply a static assert to riscv_isa_ext_id
RISC-V: Add some comments about the shadow and overflow stacks
RISC-V: Align the shadow stack
RISC-V: Ensure Zicbom has a valid block size
RISC-V: Introduce riscv_isa_extension_check
RISC-V: Improve use of isa2hwcap[]
riscv: Don't duplicate _ALTERNATIVE_CFG* macros
riscv: alternatives: Drop the underscores from the assembly macro names
riscv: alternatives: Don't name unused macro parameters
riscv: Don't duplicate __ALTERNATIVE_CFG in __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2
riscv: mm: call best_map_size many times during linear-mapping
riscv: Move cast inside kernel_mapping_[pv]a_to_[vp]a
riscv: Fix crash during early errata patching
riscv: boot: add zstd support
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Implementor does appear to be a word, but it's not very common.
Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-5-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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The current patch acceptance policy requires that specifications are
approved by the RISC-V foundation, but we rely on external
specifications as well. This explicitly calls out the UEFI
specifications that we're starting to depend on.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-4-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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The patch acceptance policy forbids accepting support for non-standard
behavior. This policy was written in order to both steer implementers
towards the standards and to avoid coupling the upstream kernel too
tightly to vendor-specific features. Those were good goals, but in
practice the policy just isn't working: every RISC-V system we have
needs vendor-specific behavior in the kernel and we end up taking that
support which violates the policy. That's confusing for contributors,
which is the main reason we have a written policy in the first place.
So let's just start taking code for vendor-defined behavior.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.DEB.2.21.999.2211181027590.4480@utopia.booyaka.com/
[Palmer: merge in Paul's suggestions]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-3-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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I just stumbled on this when modifying the docs.
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207020815.16214-2-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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RISC-V has been supporting the "sv57" address translation mode for a
while, but is has not been added to the VM layout documentation. Let
us fix that.
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118171556.1612190-1-bjorn@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The RISC-V ISA manual used to mandate that misaligned accesses were
supported in user mode, but that requirement was removed in 2018 via
riscv-isa-manual commit 61cadb9 ("Provide new description of misaligned
load/store behavior compatible with privileged architecture."). Since
the Linux uABI was already frozen at that point it's just been demoted
to part of the uABI, but that was never written down.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728210715.17214-1-palmer@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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sv48 was just introduced, so add its virtual memory layout to the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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This subdir no longer exists: it was there to document some of the
quirks and paths forward for handling them, but those have been dealt
with as of Atish's recent patch set.
Fixes: 23b1f18326ec ("Documentation: riscv: Remove the old documentation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20220329133412.591d6882@canb.auug.org.au/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
[Palmer: commit text]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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The existing pmu documentation describes the limitation of perf
infrastructure in RISC-V ISA and limited feature set of perf in RISC-V.
However, SBI PMU extension and sscofpmf extension(ISA extension) allows to
implement most of the required features of perf. Remove the old
documentation which is not accurate anymore.
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Now that KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET is defined at compile time as a config,
this value must remain constant whatever the size of the virtual address
space, which is only possible by pushing this region at the end of the
address space next to the kernel mapping.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Andreas reported commit fc8504765ec5 ("riscv: bpf: Avoid breaking W^X")
breaks booting with one kind of defconfig, I reproduced a kernel panic
with the defconfig:
[ 0.138553] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff81201220
[ 0.139159] Oops [#1]
[ 0.139303] Modules linked in:
[ 0.139601] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-default+ #1
[ 0.139934] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 0.140193] epc : __memset+0xc4/0xfc
[ 0.140416] ra : skb_flow_dissector_init+0x1e/0x82
[ 0.140609] epc : ffffffff8029806c ra : ffffffff8033be78 sp : ffffffe001647da0
[ 0.140878] gp : ffffffff81134b08 tp : ffffffe001654380 t0 : ffffffff81201158
[ 0.141156] t1 : 0000000000000002 t2 : 0000000000000154 s0 : ffffffe001647dd0
[ 0.141424] s1 : ffffffff80a43250 a0 : ffffffff81201220 a1 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.141654] a2 : 000000000000003c a3 : ffffffff81201258 a4 : 0000000000000064
[ 0.141893] a5 : ffffffff8029806c a6 : 0000000000000040 a7 : ffffffffffffffff
[ 0.142126] s2 : ffffffff81201220 s3 : 0000000000000009 s4 : ffffffff81135088
[ 0.142353] s5 : ffffffff81135038 s6 : ffffffff8080ce80 s7 : ffffffff80800438
[ 0.142584] s8 : ffffffff80bc6578 s9 : 0000000000000008 s10: ffffffff806000ac
[ 0.142810] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : fffffffffffffffc t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.143042] t5 : 0000000000000155 t6 : 00000000000003ff
[ 0.143220] status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: ffffffff81201220 cause: 000000000000000f
[ 0.143560] [<ffffffff8029806c>] __memset+0xc4/0xfc
[ 0.143859] [<ffffffff8061e984>] init_default_flow_dissectors+0x22/0x60
[ 0.144092] [<ffffffff800010fc>] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x168
[ 0.144278] [<ffffffff80600df0>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1c8/0x224
[ 0.144479] [<ffffffff804868a8>] kernel_init+0x12/0x110
[ 0.144658] [<ffffffff800022de>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
[ 0.145124] ---[ end trace f1e9643daa46d591 ]---
After some investigation, I think I found the root cause: commit
2bfc6cd81bd ("move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping") moves
BPF JIT region after the kernel:
| #define BPF_JIT_REGION_START PFN_ALIGN((unsigned long)&_end)
The &_end is unlikely aligned with PMD size, so the front bpf jit
region sits with part of kernel .data section in one PMD size mapping.
But kernel is mapped in PMD SIZE, when bpf_jit_binary_lock_ro() is
called to make the first bpf jit prog ROX, we will make part of kernel
.data section RO too, so when we write to, for example memset the
.data section, MMU will trigger a store page fault.
To fix the issue, we need to ensure the BPF JIT region is PMD size
aligned. This patch acchieve this goal by restoring the BPF JIT region
to original position, I.E the 128MB before kernel .text section. The
modification to kasan_init.c is inspired by Alexandre.
Fixes: fc8504765ec5 ("riscv: bpf: Avoid breaking W^X")
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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This new document presents the RISC-V virtual memory layout and is based
one the x86 one: it describes the different limits of the different regions
of the virtual address space.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Add a feature list matrix for each architecture to their
respective Kernel books.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9c39d4dd93e05c0008205527d2c3450912f029ed.1606748711.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's
still a couple of things of note:
- Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST
- A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer
profile entry too)
Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits)
docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst
docs: usb: remove some broken references
scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives
docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection
zram: correct documentation about sysfs node of huge page writeback
Documentation: zram: various fixes in zram.rst
Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation
Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation
docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri
Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific
Documentation: nfs: fault_injection: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST
Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST
Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST
Documentation: nfs-rdma: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfsroot.rst: COSMETIC: refill a paragraph
Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST
Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST
Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST
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Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for
arch/riscv. In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to
only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been
frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.
We've been following these guidelines for the past few months. In the
meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.
Based on a suggestion from Matthew Wilcox, we also add a link to this
file to Documentation/process/index.rst, to make this document easier
to find. The format of this document has also been changed to align
to the format outlined in the maintainer entry profiles, in accordance
with comments from Jon Corbet and Dan Williams.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Krste Asanovic <krste@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are some typos in boot image header and riscv boot documentation.
Fix the typos.
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191009010637.9955-1-atish.patra@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Correct the sequence of the magic number 2 since it's little endian.
Signed-off-by: Chester Lin <clin@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the
mass RST conversion is happily mostly behind us.
- A new document on reproducible builds.
- We finally got around to zapping the documentation for hardware
support that was removed in 2004; one doesn't want to rush these
things.
- The usual assortment of fixes, typo corrections, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits)
Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds
docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]
Documentation: Add "earlycon=sbi" to the admin guide
doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock
devices.txt: improve entry for comedi (char major 98)
docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver
doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region
Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'
mailmap: Update email address for Quentin Perret
docs: ftrace: clarify when tracing is disabled by the trace file
docs: process: fix broken link
Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title
Documentation/arm/sa1100/assabet: Fix 'make assabet_defconfig' command
Documentation/arm/sa1100: Remove some obsolete documentation
docs/zh_CN: update Chinese howto.rst for latexdocs making
Documentation: virt: Fix broken reference to virt tree's index
docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide
kernel-doc: Allow anonymous enum
Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference
Documentation: sphinx: Add missing comma to list of strings
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Part of the intention during the definition of the RISC-V kernel image
header was to lay the groundwork for a future merge with the ARM64
image header. One error during my original review was not noticing
that the RISC-V header's "magic" field was at a different size and
position than the ARM64's "magic" field. If the existing ARM64 Image
header parsing code were to attempt to parse an existing RISC-V kernel
image header format, it would see a magic number 0. This is
undesirable, since it's our intention to align as closely as possible
with the ARM64 header format. Another problem was that the original
"res3" field was not being initialized correctly to zero.
Address these issues by creating a 32-bit "magic2" field in the RISC-V
header which matches the ARM64 "magic" field. RISC-V binaries will
store "RSC\x05" in this field. The intention is that the use of the
existing 64-bit "magic" field in the RISC-V header will be deprecated
over time. Increment the minor version number of the file format to
indicate this change, and update the documentation accordingly. Fix
the assembler directives in head.S to ensure that reserved fields are
properly zero-initialized.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reported-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Cc: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/194c2f10c9806720623430dbf0cc59a965e50448.camel@wdc.com/T/#u
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/mhng-755b14c4-8f35-4079-a7ff-e421fd1b02bc@palmer-si-x1e/T/#t
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Convert this small file to ReST format by:
- Using a proper markup for the document title;
- marking a code block as such;
- use tags for Author and date;
- use tables for bit map fields.
While here, fix a broken reference for a document with is
planned but is not here yet.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:
- Hugepage support
- "Image" header support for RISC-V kernel binaries, compatible with
the current ARM64 "Image" header
- Initial page table setup now split into two stages
- CONFIG_SOC support (starting with SiFive SoCs)
- Avoid reserving memory between RAM start and the kernel in
setup_bootmem()
- Enable high-res timers and dynamic tick in the RV64 defconfig
- Remove long-deprecated gate area stubs
- MAINTAINERS updates to switch to the newly-created shared RISC-V git
tree, and to fix a get_maintainers.pl issue for patches involving
SiFive E-mail addresses
Also, one integration fix to resolve a build problem introduced during
in the v5.3-rc1 merge window:
- Fix build break after macro-to-function conversion in
asm-generic/cacheflush.h
* tag 'riscv/for-v5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
riscv: fix build break after macro-to-function conversion in generic cacheflush.h
RISC-V: Add an Image header that boot loader can parse.
RISC-V: Setup initial page tables in two stages
riscv: remove free_initrd_mem
riscv: ccache: Remove unused variable
riscv: Introduce huge page support for 32/64bit kernel
x86, arm64: Move ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE config in arch/Kconfig
RISC-V: Fix memory reservation in setup_bootmem()
riscv: defconfig: enable SOC_SIFIVE
riscv: select SiFive platform drivers with SOC_SIFIVE
arch: riscv: add config option for building SiFive's SoC resource
riscv: Remove gate area stubs
MAINTAINERS: change the arch/riscv git tree to the new shared tree
MAINTAINERS: don't automatically patches involving SiFive to the linux-riscv list
RISC-V: defconfig: Enable NO_HZ_IDLE and HIGH_RES_TIMERS
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Now that several arch documents were converted to ReST,
add their indexes to Documentation/index.rst and remove the
:orphan: from them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Currently, the last stage boot loaders such as U-Boot can accept only
uImage which is an unnecessary additional step in automating boot
process.
Add an image header that boot loader understands and boot Linux from
flat Image directly.
This header is based on ARM64 boot image header and provides an
opportunity to combine both ARM64 & RISC-V image headers in future.
Also make sure that PE/COFF header can co-exist in the same image so
that EFI stub can be supported for RISC-V in future. EFI specification
needs PE/COFF image header in the beginning of the kernel image in order
to load it as an EFI application. In order to support EFI stub, code0
should be replaced with "MZ" magic string and res4(at offset 0x3c)
should point to the rest of the PE/COFF header (which will be added
during EFI support).
Tested on both QEMU and HiFive Unleashed using OpenSBI + U-Boot + Linux.
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>
Tested-by: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (QEMU+OpenSBI+U-Boot)
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> (OpenSBI + U-Boot + Linux)
[paul.walmsley@sifive.com: fixed whitespace in boot-image-header.txt;
converted structure comment to kernel-doc format and added some detail]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
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Costa Shulyupin
Palmer Dabbelt
Evan Green
Linus Torvalds
Charlie Jenkins
Bjorn Helgaas
Alexandre Ghiti
Conor Dooley
Andy Chiu
Björn Töpel
Alexandre Ghiti
Bagas Sanjaya
Atish Patra
Jisheng Zhang
Alexandre Ghiti
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Paul Walmsley
Chester Lin
Mauro Carvalho Chehab