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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:36:47 +0200
From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
To: aleksa.paunovic@...cgroup.com, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
<conor+dt@...nel.org>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
Djordje Todorovic <djordje.todorovic@...cgroup.com>,
devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
Aleksandar Rikalo <arikalo@...il.com>,
Raj Vishwanathan4 <rvishwanathan@...s.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] riscv: Add support for xmipsexectl
Hi Aleksa,
On 7/24/25 17:23, Aleksa Paunovic via B4 Relay wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the xmipsexectl vendor extension.
> A new hardware probe key has also been added to allow userspace to probe for MIPS vendor extensions.
>
> Additionally, since the standard Zihintpause PAUSE instruction encoding is not supported on some MIPS CPUs,
> an errata was implemented for replacing this instruction with the xmipsexectl MIPS.PAUSE alternative encoding.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Paunovic <aleksa.paunovic@...cgroup.com>
> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - Add MIPS.IHB and MIPS.EHB instructions
> - Rebase on alex-for-next
> - Address other smaller comments pointed out by Alexandre
> - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625-p8700-pause-v4-0-6c7dd7f85756@htecgroup.com
>
> This is a continuation of a previous series, which did not implement the full
> xmipsexectl vendor extension. The title was updated accordingly.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Add support for the xmipsexectl vendor extension
> - Remove the ifdef/else from errata_list.h
> - Replace the ifdef/else with a hwprobe call in the userspace code.
>
> Link to v3:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20250129131703.733098-1-arikalo@gmail.com/
>
> ---
> Aleksa Paunovic (6):
> dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description
> riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension
> riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions
> riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing
> riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension
> riscv: Add tools support for xmipsexectl
>
> Djordje Todorovic (1):
> riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700
>
> Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 9 +++
> .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 6 ++
> arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata | 23 ++++++++
> arch/riscv/Kconfig.vendor | 13 +++++
> arch/riscv/errata/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/riscv/errata/mips/Makefile | 5 ++
> arch/riscv/errata/mips/errata.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative.h | 3 +
> arch/riscv/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h | 13 ++++-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list_vendors.h | 5 ++
> arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/vendor_extensions/mips.h | 37 ++++++++++++
> .../include/asm/vendor_extensions/mips_hwprobe.h | 22 +++++++
> arch/riscv/include/asm/vendorid_list.h | 1 +
> arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 1 +
> arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/vendor/mips.h | 3 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/alternative.c | 5 ++
> arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 4 ++
> arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions.c | 10 ++++
> arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/Makefile | 2 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/mips.c | 22 +++++++
> arch/riscv/kernel/vendor_extensions/mips_hwprobe.c | 23 ++++++++
> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 1 +
> tools/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h | 27 +++++----
> 26 files changed, 298 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: b6a4bae2f16162876842127d7507dad84e404f8f
> change-id: 20250424-p8700-pause-dcb649968e24
>
> Best regards,
Thanks for the v5, I'll take that for 6.17.
Thanks,
Alex
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