[PATCH v3 00/15] riscv: hwprobe: Expose RVA23U64 base behavior

Guodong Xu docular.xu at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 04:11:55 PDT 2026


This series builds on Andrew Jones's earlier RFC [1]. It lets
userspace check for RVA23U64 conformance in one call, instead of
walking hwprobe + prctl across every mandatory extension.

The series adds a small framework that resolves profile-class
bases (IMA and RVA23U64) from the kernel's ISA extension bitmap at
init time, and surfaces the result through both /proc/cpuinfo and
hwprobe. Later patches can add RVA23S64, and backward RVA22 / RVA20
detection, to riscv_set_isa_bases() without changes to the
surrounding code.

Changes in v3 came from these sources:
1. A rebase from v7.1-rc2 to v7.1-rc6;
2. hwprobe.rst clean-up is moved to first;
3. Zic64b is added as a first-class ISA extension (dt-binding,
   cpufeature parsing, and hwprobe export);
4. Resolve review comments from v2.

V3 Series outline:

  1-3. hwprobe.rst clean-ups: normalize indentation first, then
       document EXT_ZICFISS / EXT_ZICFILP, and standardize single-letter
       extension capitalization.

   4.  Zicclsm: cpufeature parsing + hwprobe export.
   5.  Ziccamoa, Ziccif, Ziccrse, Za64rs: cpufeature parsing + hwprobe export.
   6.  B: cpuufeature pasrsing + hwprobe export, as the Zba/Zbb/Zbs set.

   7.  Zic64b: dt-bindings, with a schema check.
   8.  Zic64b: cpufeature parsing + hwprobe export.
 9-11. dts: Declare zic64b in the SpacemiT K3, SpacemiT K1, and Sophgo
       SG2044 device trees.

  12.  riscv_have_user_pmlen(): arch-level accessor for user
       pointer-masking PMLEN support, used by RVA23U64 detection.

  13.  cpufeature: per-hart and host-wide isa_bases bitmaps,
       populated at init time. IMA and RVA23U64 detection lives
       here.

  14.  /proc/cpuinfo: print "isa bases:" and "hart isa bases:", eg. rva23u64.
  15.  hwprobe: expose RVA23U64.

Tested on both K3 Pico ITX and Qemu with -cpu rva23s64,sv39=on:
  - /proc/cpuinfo reports "isa bases : rv64ima rva23u64" on both the
    aggregated and per-hart lines.
  - hwprobe RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_BASE_BEHAVIOR returns
    BASE_BEHAVIOR_IMA | BASE_BEHAVIOR_RVA23U64.

Based on v7.1-rc6 plus [2]; happy to rebase onto another tree if needed.
A branch is available for all patches in the series: [3].

Note: [2] is only required in order to save the merge effort for adding
      'Zic64b' and 'Ziccrse' into the same k3.dtsi.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260206002349.96740-1-andrew.jones@oss.qualcomm.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260602070257-KYC5031219@kernel.org/ [2]
Link: https://github.com/docularxu/linux/commits/b4/rva23u64-hwprobe/ [3]
---
Changes in v3:
- Add Zic64b as a first-class ISA extension: dt-binding, cpufeature
  parsing with a validate check, hwprobe export, and device-tree
  declarations for K3/K1/SG2044.
- Patch 1 is now a clean up of hwprobe.rst indentation.
- Document RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICFILP alongside ZICFISS.
- Move the Zicclsm hwprobe.rst entry to the IMA_EXT_1 section to match
  its bit allocation.
- Collect Anup Patel's Acked-by/Reviewed-by on Patch 3, the capitalization.
- In cpufeature.c, set the local ext_mask with __set_bit().
- Update Guodong Xu's email to docular.xu at gmail.com.

- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511-rva23u64-hwprobe-v2-v2-0-21c5a544f1dc@riscstar.com

Changes in v2 (since Andrew's RFC v1):
- Rebased onto v7.1-rc2.
- Reworked rva23u64 detection into per-hart and host isa_bases bitmaps,
  shared by /proc/cpuinfo and hwprobe.
- Scoped to IMA and RVA23U64 (RVA23S64, RVA20/RVA22 cpuinfo output deferred).

- Link to v1:  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260206002349.96740-1-andrew.jones@oss.qualcomm.com

BR,
Guodong Xu

To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw at kernel.org>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
To: Albert Ou <aou at eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
To: Shuah Khan <shuah at kernel.org>
To: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
To: Atish Patra <atish.patra at linux.dev>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org>
To: Deepak Gupta <debug at rivosinc.com>
To: Zong Li <zong.li at sifive.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones at oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Charles Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins at gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest at vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm-riscv at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Guodong Xu <docular.xu at gmail.com>

---
Andrew Jones (4):
      riscv: hwprobe.rst: Make indentation consistent
      riscv: Add Ziccamoa, Ziccif, Ziccrse, and Za64rs to cpufeature and hwprobe
      riscv: Add B to hwcap and hwprobe
      riscv: Add a getter for user PMLEN support

Charlie Jenkins (1):
      riscv: Standardize extension capitalization

Guodong Xu (9):
      riscv: hwprobe.rst: Document EXT_ZICFISS and EXT_ZICFILP
      dt-bindings: riscv: Add Zic64b extension description
      riscv: Add Zic64b to cpufeature and hwprobe
      riscv: dts: spacemit: k3: Add Zic64b ISA extension
      riscv: dts: spacemit: k1: Add Zic64b ISA extension
      riscv: dts: sophgo: sg2044: Add Zic64b ISA extension
      riscv: cpufeature: Introduce ISA bases bitmap and rva23u64 detection
      riscv: cpu: Output isa bases lines in cpuinfo
      riscv: hwprobe: Introduce rva23u64 base behavior

Jesse Taube (1):
      riscv: Add Zicclsm to cpufeature and hwprobe

 Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst               | 239 ++++++++++++---------
 .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml      |  20 ++
 arch/riscv/boot/dts/sophgo/sg2044-cpus.dtsi        | 128 +++++------
 arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi               |  80 +++----
 arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi               |  48 ++---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h                |  14 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h                     |  24 ++-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h                 |   4 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h                 |   4 +-
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h                |   1 +
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h              |  10 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c                            |  26 +++
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c                     | 182 ++++++++++++++--
 arch/riscv/kernel/process.c                        |  12 ++
 arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c                    |  34 ++-
 arch/riscv/kvm/isa.c                               |  16 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/main.c                              |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_fp.c                           |  20 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_onereg.c                       |   6 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c                       |  10 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/which-cpus.c |   2 +-
 21 files changed, 586 insertions(+), 296 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: a04586b3d291a349301c2463bc485d05a3968383
change-id: 20260508-rva23u64-hwprobe-v2-1d20739cbb8e

Best regards,
--  
Guodong Xu <docular.xu at gmail.com>




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