[PATCH v2 0/4] riscv: hwprobe: Add Zicbop support

Yao Zihong zihong.plct at isrc.iscas.ac.cn
Thu Oct 9 06:41:50 PDT 2025


Changes since v1:
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- Bump RISCV_HWPROBE_MAX_KEY (modified 1/4).
- Add documentation for the Zicbop hwprobe bit/key (new 3/4).
- Add a selftest(prefetch.c) for Zicbop (new 4/4).

Add UAPI and kernel plumbing to expose the Zicbop extension presence
and its block size through hwprobe. The interface mirrors
Zicbom/Zicboz. This allows userspace to safely discover and optimize
for Zicbop when available.

Background: Zicbop is mandated by the RVA22U64 profile. Downstream may
combine the presence bit with ZICBOP_BLOCK_SIZE to make profile-level
policy decisions or enable Zicbop-specific optimizations.

Yao Zihong (4):
  uapi: riscv: hwprobe: Add Zicbop extension bit and block-size key
  riscv: hwprobe: Report Zicbop presence and block size
  docs: riscv: Document hwprobe for Zicbop
  selftests/riscv: Add Zicbop prefetch test

 Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst          |   8 +-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h              |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h         |   2 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c               |   6 +
 .../testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/Makefile  |   5 +-
 .../selftests/riscv/hwprobe/prefetch.c        | 236 ++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/prefetch.c

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