[PATCH v2 1/2] riscv: track effective hardware PTE A/D updates

Yunhui Cui cuiyunhui at bytedance.com
Fri May 22 07:23:57 PDT 2026


Track the effective hardware PTE A/D update mode separately from
Svadu capability discovery. When both Svade and Svadu are present,
enable SBI FWFT PTE A/D hardware updating on each online CPU via
CPUHP and use the resulting runtime state for arch_has_hw_pte_young().
Fall back to software-managed A/D updates if enabling hardware updates
fails.

When Svadu is present without Svade, assume hardware PTE A/D updating
is enabled from boot, and document that boot-time behavior in the DT
binding.

Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui at bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Qingwei Hu <qingwei.hu at bytedance.com>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml |  6 +-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h           |  6 ++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h              |  8 +--
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c                | 58 +++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
index 2b0a8a93bb214..b09888e9988de 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@ properties:
                of the PTE A/D bits or page faults when they need updated.
             2) Only Svade present in DT => Supervisor must assume Svade to be
                always enabled.
-            3) Only Svadu present in DT => Supervisor must assume Svadu to be
-               always enabled.
+            3) Only Svadu present in DT => Supervisor must assume Svadu is
+               enabled at boot.
             4) Both Svade and Svadu present in DT => Supervisor must assume
-               Svadu turned-off at boot time. To use Svadu, supervisor must
+               Svadu is disabled at boot time. To use Svadu, supervisor must
                explicitly enable it using the SBI FWFT extension.
 
         - const: svadu
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 739fcc84bf7b2..ad9fad6eee55d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ struct riscv_isa_ext_data {
 extern const struct riscv_isa_ext_data riscv_isa_ext[];
 extern const size_t riscv_isa_ext_count;
 extern bool riscv_isa_fallback;
+DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating);
+
+static __always_inline bool riscv_has_hw_pte_ad_updating(void)
+{
+	return static_branch_unlikely(&riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating);
+}
 
 unsigned long riscv_isa_extension_base(const unsigned long *isa_bitmap);
 static __always_inline bool riscv_cpu_has_extension_likely(int cpu, const unsigned long ext)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index a1a7c6520a095..20663a466cf6c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -732,14 +732,14 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t _prot)
 #define pgprot_dmacoherent pgprot_writecombine
 
 /*
- * Both Svade and Svadu control the hardware behavior when the PTE A/D bits need to be set. By
- * default the M-mode firmware enables the hardware updating scheme when only Svadu is present in
- * DT.
+ * Both Svade and Svadu control the hardware behavior when the PTE A/D bits
+ * need to be set. The core MM code only cares whether hardware updating of
+ * the accessed/dirty state is currently active.
  */
 #define arch_has_hw_pte_young arch_has_hw_pte_young
 static inline bool arch_has_hw_pte_young(void)
 {
-	return riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADU);
+	return riscv_has_hw_pte_ad_updating();
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
index f46aa5602d74d..831dd6a7c1a06 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 static bool any_cpu_has_zicboz;
 static bool any_cpu_has_zicbop;
 static bool any_cpu_has_zicbom;
+DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating);
 
 unsigned long elf_hwcap __read_mostly;
 
@@ -287,15 +288,60 @@ static int riscv_ext_zvfbfwma_validate(const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *data,
 	return -EPROBE_DEFER;
 }
 
-static int riscv_ext_svadu_validate(const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *data,
-				    const unsigned long *isa_bitmap)
+static void riscv_set_hw_pte_ad_updating(void)
+{
+	static_branch_enable(&riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating);
+}
+
+static int riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating_starting(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = sbi_fwft_set(SBI_FWFT_PTE_AD_HW_UPDATING, 1, 0);
+	if (ret) {
+		if (ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+			pr_err("CPU%u failed to enable hardware PTE A/D updating: %d\n",
+			       cpu, ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int __init riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating_init(void)
 {
-	/* SVADE has already been detected, use SVADE only */
-	if (__riscv_isa_extension_available(isa_bitmap, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADE))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	bool has_svade, has_svadu;
+	int state;
 
+	has_svade = riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADE);
+	has_svadu = riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADU);
+
+	if (!has_svadu)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!has_svade)
+		goto enable;
+
+	state = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
+				  "riscv/pte-ad:starting",
+				  riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating_starting,
+				  NULL);
+	if (state < 0) {
+		pr_info("riscv: leave PTE A/D updates software-managed (%d)\n",
+			state);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * A successful CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN registration means the startup
+	 * callback has already succeeded on all online CPUs.
+	 */
+enable:
+	riscv_set_hw_pte_ad_updating();
+	pr_debug("riscv: hardware PTE A/D updating enabled\n");
 	return 0;
 }
+arch_initcall(riscv_hw_pte_ad_updating_init);
 
 static int riscv_cfilp_validate(const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *data,
 				const unsigned long *isa_bitmap)
@@ -584,7 +630,7 @@ const struct riscv_isa_ext_data riscv_isa_ext[] = {
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_SUPERSET(ssnpm, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSNPM, riscv_xlinuxenvcfg_exts),
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(sstc, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSTC),
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svade, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADE),
-	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA_VALIDATE(svadu, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADU, riscv_ext_svadu_validate),
+	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svadu, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVADU),
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svinval, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVINVAL),
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svnapot, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVNAPOT),
 	__RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svpbmt, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVPBMT),
-- 
2.39.5




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