Merge patch series "RISC-V: Test th.sxstatus.MAEE bit before enabling MAEE"
authorPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:22:36 +0000 (10:22 -0700)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:21:57 +0000 (10:21 -0700)
commit6beb6bc5a81e1433a1534e75173f67d42a6f225a
tree8a718f102f521d318f1d953df178525431006eeb
parent49408400d683ae4f41e414dfcb615166cc93be5c
parent65b71cc35cc6631cb0a5b24f961fe64c085cb40b
Merge patch series "RISC-V: Test th.sxstatus.MAEE bit before enabling MAEE"

Christoph Müllner <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu> says:

Currently, the Linux kernel suffers from a boot regression when running
on the c906 QEMU emulation. Details have been reported here by Björn Töpel:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-01/msg04766.html

The main issue is, that Linux enables XTheadMae for CPUs that have a T-Head
mvendorid but QEMU maintainers don't want to emulate a CPU that uses
reserved bits in PTEs. See also the following discussion for more
context:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-02/msg00775.html

This series renames "T-Head PBMT" to "MAE"/"XTheadMae" and only enables
it if the th.sxstatus.MAEE bit is set.

The th.sxstatus CSR is documented here:
  https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/master/xtheadsxstatus.adoc

XTheadMae is documented here:
  https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/master/xtheadmae.adoc

The QEMU patch to emulate th.sxstatus with the MAEE bit not set is here:
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329120427.684677-1-christoph.muellner@vrull.eu/

After applying the referenced QEMU patch, this patchset allows to
successfully boot a C906 QEMU system emulation ("-cpu thead-c906").

* b4-shazam-lts:
  riscv: T-Head: Test availability bit before enabling MAE errata
  riscv: thead: Rename T-Head PBMT to MAE

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240407213236.2121592-1-christoph.muellner@vrull.eu
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h