[RFC PATCH 02/12] lib: utils: fdt_helper: parse RISC-V Worlds DT properties
Yu-Chien Peter Lin
peter.lin at sifive.com
Mon Aug 3 00:19:55 PDT 2026
Hi Anup,
Regarding to the suggestion in your patch:
"[4/5] lib: sbi: Extend hart protection abstraction to allow ID configuration"
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/comment/3725105/
> The RISC-V world DT property parsing can be done at the
> time of parsing domains from FDT (like already done in this
> series). The hart platform abstraction will be only for configuring
> the RISC-V world CSRs.
I considered moving per-hart pmwid DT properties parsing into
generic_domains_init()->fdt_domains_populate(), but I think
generic_extensions_init()->fdt_parse_worlds_all_harts() is
still the right place for two reasons:
1. riscv,pmwid, riscv,pmwidlist, and riscv,pmlwidlist are
per-hart properties stored in sbi_hart_features — not
per-domain. They describe the hart's platform-defined WID
configuration, independent of which domain the hart is
assigned to.
2. pmwid parsing should also work on root-domain-only systems
(no /chosen/opensbi-domains in DT). Since
fdt_iterate_each_domain() returns early when the domain
config node is absent, __fdt_parse_domain() is never
called — so placing pmwid parsing there would miss those
hart feature information.
So the flow is:
init_coldboot()
│
├─ sbi_hart_init()
│ └─ hart_detect_features()
│ └─ generic_extensions_init()
│ ├─ fdt_parse_isa_extensions_all_harts() ← /cpus: hf->extensions
│ └─ fdt_parse_worlds_all_harts() ← /cpus: hf->pmwid/pmwidlist/pmlwidlist
│
├─ sbi_domain_finalize()
│ └─ generic_domains_init()
└─ fdt_domains_populate()
├─ traverse /cpus for coldboot hart domain
└─ __fdt_parse_domain() × N
├─ parse wid, wid_deleg ← per-domain S-mode WID
└─ traverse /cpus for hart assignment
Does this reasoning make sense to you? Or did I miss something?
Thanks,
Peter Lin
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