[GIT PULL] RISC-V Patches for the 6.16 Merge Window, Part 1

Alexandre Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Tue May 13 12:49:26 PDT 2025


Hi Palmer,

On 09/05/2025 10:28, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> The following changes since commit 
> 9c32cda43eb78f78c73aee4aa344b777714e259b:
>
>   Linux 6.15-rc3 (2025-04-20 13:43:47 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alexghiti/linux 
> tags/riscv-mw1-6.16-rc1
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 135452d0c6114619fb954eaf9496210b5be0701d:
>
>   riscv: Improve Kconfig help for RISCV_ISA_V_PREEMPTIVE (2025-05-09 
> 06:35:10 +0000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> riscv patches for 6.16-rc1
>
> * Implement atomic patching support for ftrace which finally allows to 
> get rid of stop_machine()
> * Support for user_access_begin() to avoid toggling the SUM bit at 
> each userspace access, improving the performance of our user copies
> * Support for kexec_file_load() syscall
> * Improve module loading time by changing the algorithm that counts 
> the number of plt/got entries in a module
> * Zicbop is now used in the kernel to prefetch instructions
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Alexandre Ghiti (8):
>       riscv: Add support for PUD THP
>       Merge patch series "riscv: uaccess: optimisations"
>       riscv: Introduce Zicbop instructions
>       riscv: Add support for Zicbop
>       Merge patch series "riscv: ftrace: atmoic patching and preempt 
> improvements"
>       Merge patch series "riscv: kexec_file: Support loading Image 
> binary file"
>       riscv: hwprobe: export Zabha extension
>       Merge patch series "riscv: Add Zicbop & prefetchw support"
>
> Andy Chiu (11):
>       riscv: ftrace: support fastcc in Clang for WITH_ARGS
>       riscv: ftrace factor out code defined by !WITH_ARG
>       riscv: ftrace: align patchable functions to 4 Byte boundary
>       kernel: ftrace: export ftrace_sync_ipi
>       riscv: ftrace: prepare ftrace for atomic code patching
>       riscv: ftrace: do not use stop_machine to update code
>       riscv: vector: Support calling schedule() for preemptible Vector
>       riscv: add a data fence for CMODX in the kernel mode
>       riscv: ftrace: support PREEMPT
>       riscv: ftrace: support direct call using call_ops
>       riscv: Documentation: add a description about dynamic ftrace
>
> Atish Patra (1):
>       MAINTAINERS: Update Atish's email address
>
> Ben Dooks (1):
>       riscv: save the SR_SUM status over switches
>
> Guo Ren (2):
>       riscv: Add ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH[W] support with Zicbop
>       riscv: xchg: Prefetch the destination word for sc.w
>
> Haibo Xu (1):
>       perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on riscv
>
> Jisheng Zhang (4):
>       riscv: implement user_access_begin() and families
>       riscv: uaccess: use input constraints for ptr of __put_user()
>       riscv: uaccess: use 'asm goto' for put_user()
>       riscv: uaccess: use 'asm_goto_output' for get_user()
>
> Miquel Sabaté Solà (1):
>       riscv: Improve Kconfig help for RISCV_ISA_V_PREEMPTIVE
>
> Puranjay Mohan (1):
>       riscv: Implement HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS
>
> Samuel Holland (1):
>       riscv: module: Optimize PLT/GOT entry counting
>
> Song Shuai (2):
>       riscv: kexec_file: Split the loading of kernel and others
>       riscv: kexec_file: Support loading Image binary file
>
> Tiezhu Yang (1):
>       riscv: Make regs_irqs_disabled() more clear
>
> Yao Zi (1):
>       riscv/kexec_file: Fix comment in purgatory relocator
>
> 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) (1):
>       RISC-V: Kconfig: Fix help text of CMDLINE_EXTEND
>
>  .mailmap                               |   3 +-
>  Documentation/arch/riscv/cmodx.rst     |  46 +++-
>  Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst   |   4 +
>  MAINTAINERS                            |   4 +-
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                     |  36 ++-
>  arch/riscv/Makefile                    |   4 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/barrier.h       |   5 -
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h    |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/cmpxchg.h       |   4 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/ftrace.h        |  62 ++---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h         |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/image.h         |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/insn-def.h      |  66 ++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/kexec.h         |   6 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h    |   5 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h       |  97 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h     |  31 ++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/ptrace.h        |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h      |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h       | 218 ++++++++++++-----
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h        |  22 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h  |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile             |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c        |  18 ++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c         |  21 ++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c          | 485 
> --------------------------------------
>  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S              |   8 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/ftrace.c             | 242 ++++++++++---------
>  arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_elf.c          | 144 +++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_image.c        |  96 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 361 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/mcount-dyn.S         | 117 +++++----
>  arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c    |  81 +++++--
>  arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c        |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c             |  29 ++-
>  arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c                |  10 +
>  arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c               |   7 +
>  include/linux/ftrace.h                 |   2 +
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c           |   6 +
>  40 files changed, 1470 insertions(+), 784 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/elf_kexec.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_elf.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_image.c
>
>
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kernel test robot reported warnings 
(https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202505122357.aPWWHCbX-lkp@intel.com/) 
that the following diff fixes, can you squash that into commit ("riscv: 
uaccess: use 'asm_goto_output' for get_user()")?

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h 
b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 87d01168f80af..76c278dd2439f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ do { \

  #ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
  #define __get_user_8(x, ptr, label)                            \
+do {                                                           \
         u32 __user *__ptr = (u32 __user *)(ptr);                \
         u32 __lo, __hi;                                         \
         asm_goto_output(                                        \
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ do { \
                 : : label);                                     \
         (x) = (__typeof__(x))((__typeof__((x) - (x)))(          \
                 (((u64)__hi << 32) | __lo)));                   \
-
+} while (0)
  #else /* !CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT */
  #define __get_user_8(x, ptr, label)                            \
  do {                                                           \


Thanks,

Alex




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