Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] riscv: Enable cbo.zero only when all harts support Zicboz

[Charlie Jenkins]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 05:47:54PM -0700, Samuel Holland wrote:
> Currently, we enable cbo.zero for usermode on each hart that supports
> the Zicboz extension. This means that the [ms]envcfg CSR value may
> differ between harts. Other features, such as pointer masking and CFI,
> require setting [ms]envcfg bits on a per-thread basis. The combination
> of these two adds quite some complexity and overhead to context
> switching, as we would need to maintain two separate masks for the
> per-hart and per-thread bits. Andrew Jones, who originally added Zicboz
> support, writes[1][2]:
> 
>   I've approached Zicboz the same way I would approach all
>   extensions, which is to be per-hart. I'm not currently aware of
>   a platform that is / will be composed of harts where some have
>   Zicboz and others don't, but there's nothing stopping a platform
>   like that from being built.
> 
>   So, how about we add code that confirms Zicboz is on all harts.
>   If any hart does not have it, then we complain loudly and disable
>   it on all the other harts. If it was just a hardware description
>   bug, then it'll get fixed. If there's actually a platform which
>   doesn't have Zicboz on all harts, then, when the issue is reported,
>   we can decide to not support it, support it with defconfig, or
>   support it under a Kconfig guard which must be enabled by the user.
> 
> Let's follow his suggested solution and require the extension to be
> available on all harts, so the envcfg CSR value does not need to change
> when a thread migrates between harts. Since we are doing this for all
> extensions with fields in envcfg, the CSR itself only needs to be saved/
> restored when it is present on all harts.
> 
> This should not be a regression as no known hardware has asymmetric
> Zicboz support, but if anyone reports seeing the warning, we will
> re-evaluate our solution.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240322-168f191eeb8479b2ea169a5e@orel/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240323-28943722feb57a41fb0ff488@orel/ [2]
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> Changes in v3:
>  - Rebase on riscv/for-next
> 
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 7 ++++++-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c    | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 0366dc3baf33..4efaf12b470e 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>  
>  #define NUM_ALPHA_EXTS ('z' - 'a' + 1)
>  
> +static bool any_cpu_has_zicboz;
> +
>  unsigned long elf_hwcap __read_mostly;
>  
>  /* Host ISA bitmap */
> @@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ static int riscv_ext_zicboz_validate(const struct riscv_isa_ext_data *data,
>  		pr_err("Zicboz disabled as cboz-block-size present, but is not a power-of-2\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> +	any_cpu_has_zicboz = true;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -874,8 +877,10 @@ unsigned long riscv_get_elf_hwcap(void)
>  
>  void riscv_user_isa_enable(void)
>  {
> -	if (riscv_cpu_has_extension_unlikely(smp_processor_id(), RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOZ))
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOZ))
>  		csr_set(CSR_ENVCFG, ENVCFG_CBZE);
> +	else if (any_cpu_has_zicboz)
> +		pr_warn_once("Zicboz disabled as it is unavailable on some harts\n");
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c
> index c8cec0cc5833..9a8a0dc035b2 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  
>  void suspend_save_csrs(struct suspend_context *context)
>  {
> -	if (riscv_cpu_has_extension_unlikely(smp_processor_id(), RISCV_ISA_EXT_XLINUXENVCFG))
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_XLINUXENVCFG))
>  		context->envcfg = csr_read(CSR_ENVCFG);
>  	context->tvec = csr_read(CSR_TVEC);
>  	context->ie = csr_read(CSR_IE);
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void suspend_save_csrs(struct suspend_context *context)
>  void suspend_restore_csrs(struct suspend_context *context)
>  {
>  	csr_write(CSR_SCRATCH, 0);
> -	if (riscv_cpu_has_extension_unlikely(smp_processor_id(), RISCV_ISA_EXT_XLINUXENVCFG))
> +	if (riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_XLINUXENVCFG))
>  		csr_write(CSR_ENVCFG, context->envcfg);
>  	csr_write(CSR_TVEC, context->tvec);
>  	csr_write(CSR_IE, context->ie);
> -- 
> 2.45.1
>