Re: [PATCH 3/4] dt-bindings: riscv: add new riscv,isa strings for emulators

[Andrew Jones]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:05:22PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The QEMU virt and spike machines currently export a riscv,isa string of
> "rv64imafdcsuh",
> 
> While the RISC-V foundation has been ratifying a bunch of extenstions
> etc, the kernel has remained relatively static with what hardware is
> supported - but the same is not true of QEMU. Using the virt machine
> and running dt-validate on the dumped dtb fails, partly due to the
> unexpected isa string.
> 
> Rather than enumerate the many many possbilities, change the pattern
> to a regex, with the following assumptions:
> - the single letter order is fixed & we don't care about things that
>   can't even do "ima"
> - the standard multi letter extensions are all in a "_z<foo>" format
>   where the first letter of <foo> is a valid single letter extension
> - _s & _h are used for supervisor and hyper visor extensions.
> - after the first two chars, a standard multi letter extension name
>   could be an english   word (ifencei anyone?) so it's not worth
>   restricting the charset
> - vendor ISA extensions begind with _x and have no charset restrictions
> - we don't care about an e extension from an OS pov
> - that attempting to validate the contents of the multiletter extensions
>   with dt-validate beyond the formatting is a futile, massively verbose
>   or unwieldy exercise at best.
> - ima are required
> 
> The following limitations also apply:
> - multi letter extension ordering is not enforced. dt-schema does not
>   appear to allow for named match groups, so the resulting regex would
>   be even more of a headache.
> - ditto for the numbered extensions.
> 
> Finally, add me as a maintainer of the binding so that when it breaks
> in the future, I can be held responsible!
> 
> Reported-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220803170552.GA2250266-robh@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Palmer, feel free to drop the maintainer addition. I just mostly want
> to clean up my own mess on this when they decide to ratify more
> extensions & this comes back up again.
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> index 873dd12f6e89..c0e0bc5dce04 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ title: RISC-V bindings for 'cpus' DT nodes
>  maintainers:
>    - Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
>    - Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +  - Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  
>  description: |
>    This document uses some terminology common to the RISC-V community
> @@ -79,9 +80,7 @@ properties:
>        insensitive, letters in the riscv,isa string must be all
>        lowercase to simplify parsing.
>      $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string"
> -    enum:
> -      - rv64imac
> -      - rv64imafdc
> +    pattern: ^rv(?:64|32)imaf?d?q?c?b?v?k?h?(?:(?:_[zsh][imafdqcbvksh]|_x)(?:[a-z])+)*$
>  
>    # RISC-V requires 'timebase-frequency' in /cpus, so disallow it here
>    timebase-frequency: false
> -- 
> 2.37.1
>

I'd say "looks good to me", but it's a regex, so "good" is a strong word.
Instead, here's a [somewhat tentative]

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
drew