[PATCH v8 00/14] riscv: support for Svpbmt and D1 memory types

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:06:56 PDT (-0700), heiko at sntech.de wrote:
> Svpbmt is an extension defining "Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types"
> for things like non-cacheable pages or I/O memory pages.
>
>
> So this is my 2nd try at implementing Svpbmt (and the diverging D1 memory
> types) using the alternatives framework.
>
> This includes a number of changes to the alternatives mechanism itself.
> The biggest one being the move to a more central location, as I expect
> in the future, nearly every chip needing some sort of patching, be it
> either for erratas or for optional features (svpbmt or others).
>
> Detection of the svpbmt functionality is done via Atish's isa extension
> handling series [0] and thus does not need any dt-parsing of its own
> anymore.
>
> The series also introduces support for the memory types of the D1
> which are implemented differently to svpbmt. But when patching anyway
> it's pretty clean to add the D1 variant via ALTERNATIVE_2 to the same
> location.
>
> The only slightly bigger difference is that the "normal" type is not 0
> as with svpbmt, so kernel patches for this PMA type need to be applied
> even before the MMU is brought up, so the series introduces a separate
> stage for that.
>
>
> In theory this series is 3 parts:
> - sbi cache-flush / null-ptr
> - alternatives improvements
> - svpbmt+d1
>
> So expecially patches from the first 2 areas could be applied when
> deemed ready, I just thought to keep it together to show-case where
> the end-goal is and not requiring jumping between different series.
>
>
> I picked the recipient list from the previous versions, hopefully
> I didn't forget anybody.
>
> changes in v8:
> - rebase onto 5.17-final + isa extension series
>   We're halfway through the merge-window, so this series
>   should be merge after that
> - adapt to fix limiting alternatives to non-xip-kernels
> - add .norelax option for alternatives
> - fix unused cpu_apply_errata in thead errata
> - don't use static globals to store cpu-manufacturer data
>   as it makes machines hang if done too early

I'm still seeing a very similar failure mode.  There were a few merge 
conflicts when I tried to put this on top of my merged first PR, I've 
put what I'm testing at riscv-d1.  Not sure if I'm missing something.

>
> changes in v7:
> - fix typo in patch1 (Atish)
> - moved to Atish's isa-extension framework
> - and therefore move regular boot-alternatives directly behind fill_hwcaps
> - change T-Head errata Kconfig text (Atish)
>
> changes in v6:
> - rebase onto 5.17-rc1
> - handle sbi null-ptr differently
> - improve commit messages
> - use riscv,mmu as property name
>
> changes in v5:
> - move to use alternatives for runtime-patching
> - add D1 variant
>
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220222204811.2281949-2-atishp@rivosinc.com
>
>
> Heiko Stuebner (13):
>   riscv: prevent null-pointer dereference with sbi_remote_fence_i
>   riscv: integrate alternatives better into the main architecture
>   riscv: allow different stages with alternatives
>   riscv: implement module alternatives
>   riscv: implement ALTERNATIVE_2 macro
>   riscv: extend concatenated alternatives-lines to the same length
>   riscv: prevent compressed instructions in alternatives
>   riscv: move boot alternatives to after fill_hwcap
>   riscv: Fix accessing pfn bits in PTEs for non-32bit variants
>   riscv: add cpufeature handling via alternatives
>   riscv: remove FIXMAP_PAGE_IO and fall back to its default value
>   riscv: don't use global static vars to store alternative data
>   riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head
>
> Wei Fu (1):
>   riscv: add RISC-V Svpbmt extension support
>
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.erratas                  |  31 +++--
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs                     |   1 -
>  arch/riscv/Makefile                         |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/errata/Makefile                  |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/errata/alternative.c             |  75 ------------
>  arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata.c           |  17 ++-
>  arch/riscv/errata/thead/Makefile            |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c            |  82 +++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h | 121 ++++++++++++++------
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h        |  16 ++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h        |  52 +++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h             |   2 -
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h              |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-32.h         |  17 +++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h         |  79 ++++++++++++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h       |  10 --
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h            |  53 +++++++--
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h      |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/alternative.c             | 104 +++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c                     |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c              |  80 ++++++++++++-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/module.c                  |  29 +++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/sbi.c                     |  10 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c                   |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c                 |   4 -
>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c                   |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c                        |   1 +
>  28 files changed, 629 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/alternative.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/thead/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/alternative.c