Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] target/riscv: add rva22u64 profile definition

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:49:53AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> The rva22U64 profile, described in:
> 
> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/profiles.adoc#rva22-profiles
> 
> Contains a set of CPU extensions aimed for 64-bit userspace
> applications. Enabling this set to be enabled via a single user flag
> makes it convenient to enable a predictable set of features for the CPU,
> giving users more predicability when running/testing their workloads.
> 
> QEMU implements all possible extensions of this profile. The exception
> is Zicbop (Cache-Block Prefetch Operations) that is not available since
> QEMU RISC-V does not implement a cache model. For this same reason all
> the so called 'synthetic extensions' described in the profile that are
> cache related are ignored (Za64rs, Zic64b, Ziccif, Ziccrse, Ziccamoa,
> Zicclsm).
> 
> An abstraction called RISCVCPUProfile is created to store the profile.
> 'ext_offsets' contains mandatory extensions that QEMU supports. Same
> thing with the 'misa_ext' mask. Optional extensions must be enabled
> manually in the command line if desired.
> 
> The design here is to use the common target/riscv/cpu.c file to store
> the profile declaration and export it to the accelerator files. Each
> accelerator is then responsible to expose it (or not) to users and how
> to enable the extensions.
> 
> Next patches will implement the profile for TCG and KVM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
> Acked-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
> ---
>  target/riscv/cpu.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  target/riscv/cpu.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/riscv/cpu.c b/target/riscv/cpu.c
> index f40da4c661..c9e263cbac 100644
> --- a/target/riscv/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/riscv/cpu.c
> @@ -1429,6 +1429,26 @@ Property riscv_cpu_options[] = {
>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
>  };
>  
> +/* Optional extensions left out: RVV, zfh, zkn, zks */
> +static RISCVCPUProfile RVA22U64 = {
> +    .name = "rva22u64",
> +    .misa_ext = RVI | RVM | RVA | RVF | RVD | RVC,
> +    .ext_offsets = {
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zicsr), CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zihintpause),
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zba), CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zbb),
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zbs), CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zfhmin),
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zkt), CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zicntr),
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zihpm), CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zicbom),
> +        CPU_CFG_OFFSET(ext_zicboz),

There are several more mandatory RVA22U64 extensions in the ratified
spec[1]. I think many of them can be "implemented" by QEMU by simply
adding their names to the ISA string. But, in any case, I think we should
at least put a comment here explaining why they're not in ext_offsets[]

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/releases/download/v1.0/profiles.pdf

Thanks,
drew