[PATCH v6 00/13] riscv: Add vector ISA support

From: Greentime Hu
Date: Fri Jun 12 2020 - 03:10:14 EST


This patchset is based on Guo Ren's v3 patchset to add dynamic vlen vector
support for all different kinds of vector length in riscv. To make this
happened we defined a new __riscv_v_state in sigcontext to save the vector
related registers. In kernel space, the datap pointer in __riscv_v_state
will be allocated dynamically to save vector registers. In user space,
datap will point to the address right after the __riscv_v_state data
structure to save vector registers in stack of signal handler. So does the
implementation in ptrace, they will be saved in ubuf in which we put the
__riscv_v_state data structure and datap pointer points to the address
right after the __riscv_v_state for saving vector registers. This patchset
also fixes several bugs for vector lazy save/restore mechanism and vtype
not saving issue. It also adds new vector CSRs support based on the 0.9
vector spec and clean up some unused macros.

This patchset is rebased to v5.7-rc4 and it is tested by running several
vector programs simultaneously. It also can get the correct ucontext_t in
signal handler and restore correct context after sigreturn. It is also
tested with ptrace() syscall to use PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET to
get/set the vector registers. I have tested vlen=128 and vlen=256 cases in
virt machine of qemu-system-riscv32 and qemu-system-riscv64 provided by
Zhiwei Lui and Frank Chang.

Since the vector spec is under developing, the implementation might be
changed. We may need to discuss the default value of MINSIGSTKSZ and
SIGSTKSZ. They might also need to set a proper number. They are 2048 and
8096 now. Since the stack in signal will be reserved for ucontext and the
vector registers might be larger and larger someday, these two macros will
need to be defined as a proper value or maybe we should provide a better
mechanism to provide user to get a better default signal stack size.

Vincent Chen is working on the glibc porting for vector, we will post it
later.

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/0.9/v-spec.adoc
[2] https://github.com/sifive/riscv-qemu/tree/linux-vector-dev-rvv-0.9-phase-1
[3] https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/sessions/4671.html

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Changelog V6
- Replace vle.v/vse.v instructions with vle8.v/vse8.v based on 0.9 spec
- Add comments based on mailinglist feedback
- Fix rv32 build error

Changelog V5
- Using regset_size() correctly in generic ptrace
- Fix the ptrace porting
- Fix compile warning

Changelog V4
- Support dynamic vlen
- Fix bugs: lazy save/resotre, not saving vtype
- Update VS bit offset based on latest vector spec
- Add new vector csr based on latest vector spec
- Code refine and removed unused macros

Changelog V3
- Rebase linux-5.6-rc3 and tested with qemu
- Seperate patches with Anup's advice
- Give out a ABI puzzle with unlimited vlen

Changelog V2
- Fixup typo "vecotr, fstate_save->vstate_save".
- Fixup wrong saved registers' length in vector.S.
- Seperate unrelated patches from this one.

Greentime Hu (7):
ptrace: Use regset_size() for dynamic regset
riscv: Add new csr defines related to vector extension
riscv: Add has_vector/riscv_vsize to save vector features.
riscv: Add vector struct and assembler definitions
riscv: Add task switch support for vector
riscv: Add ptrace vector support
riscv: Add sigcontext save/restore for vector

Guo Ren (5):
riscv: Separate patch for cflags and aflags
riscv: Rename __switch_to_aux -> fpu
riscv: Extending cpufeature.c to detect V-extension
riscv: Add vector feature to compile
riscv: Reset vector register

Vincent Chen (1):
riscv: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv

arch/riscv/Kconfig | 9 ++
arch/riscv/Makefile | 19 ++--
arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 16 +++-
arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h | 17 +++-
arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 3 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h | 77 ++++++++++++++-
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h | 2 +
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/elf.h | 1 +
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 13 +++
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 8 ++
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 16 +++-
arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 6 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 49 +++++++++-
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 40 ++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 5 +
arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/riscv/kernel/vector.S | 84 +++++++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 +
kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
23 files changed, 569 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/vector.S

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