[PATCH] riscv: hwprobe: allow querying available RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0 bits

Paris Oplopoios parisoplop at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 09:33:48 PDT 2025


When probing for extensions using RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0, a missing
bit in the resulting bitmask means extension is not available or the kernel is
not recent enough to support the bit. Currently, there's no way to
differentiate between the two.

This adds a new riscv_hwprobe key, RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL, which
returns a bitmask of all queryable supported by the kernel
in RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0. This can allow programs to use a fallback
extension detection method when the bit they want to query is not available
in the kernel they are running on.

Example usage:

    struct riscv_hwprobe req = { RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL, 0 };
    int ret = syscall(__NR_riscv_hwprobe, &req, 1, 0, NULL, 0);
    if (ret == 0) {
        uint64_t bitmask = req.value;
        if (bitmask & RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZABHA) {
            // Check for existence of Zabha extension using riscv_hwprobe
        } else {
            // Fallback to checking if an instruction in the Zabha
            // extension results in an illegal instruction exception
        }
    }

Signed-off-by: Paris Oplopoios <parisoplop at gmail.com>

---

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
index 2aa9be272d5d..6d77def0a46e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
@@ -360,4 +360,7 @@ The following keys are defined:

     * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_VENDOR_EXT_XSFVFWMACCQQQ`: The Xsfvfwmaccqqq
         vendor extension is supported in version 1.0 of Matrix
Multiply Accumulate
-    Instruction Extensions Specification.
\ No newline at end of file
+    Instruction Extensions Specification.
+
+* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL`: A bitmask containing
the extensions
+  that can be probed using the :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0` key.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
index 7fe0a379474a..501d49b7a02a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@

 #include <uapi/asm/hwprobe.h>

-#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY 13
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY 14
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL_VALUE    ((1ULL << 59) - 1)

 static inline bool riscv_hwprobe_key_is_valid(__s64 key)
 {
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
index aaf6ad970499..a3b92df4dc05 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct riscv_hwprobe {
 #define        RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZAAMO        (1ULL << 56)
 #define        RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZALRSC    (1ULL << 57)
 #define        RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZABHA        (1ULL << 58)
+/* Change RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL_VALUE when adding items. */
 #define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0    5
 #define        RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN    (0 << 0)
 #define        RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_EMULATED    (1 << 0)
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ struct riscv_hwprobe {
 #define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0    11
 #define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOM_BLOCK_SIZE    12
 #define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_SIFIVE_0    13
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL 14
 /* Increase RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY when adding items. */

 /* Flags */
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
index 0b170e18a2be..40e7fa5f85f3 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ static void hwprobe_one_pair(struct riscv_hwprobe *pair,
         hwprobe_isa_vendor_ext_thead_0(pair, cpus);
         break;

+    case RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL:
+        pair->value = RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0_AVAIL_VALUE;
+        break;
+
     /*
      * For forward compatibility, unknown keys don't fail the whole
      * call, but get their element key set to -1 and value set to 0



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