Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] riscv: add support for SBI Supervisor Software Events extension

From: Andrew Jones
Date: Wed Mar 19 2025 - 13:10:24 EST


On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:30:58PM +0100, Clément Léger wrote:
...
> +int arch_sse_init_event(struct sse_event_arch_data *arch_evt, u32 evt_id, int cpu)
> +{
> + void *stack;
> +
> + arch_evt->evt_id = evt_id;
> + stack = sse_stack_alloc(cpu, SSE_STACK_SIZE);
> + if (!stack)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + arch_evt->stack = stack + SSE_STACK_SIZE;
> +
> + if (sse_init_scs(cpu, arch_evt))
> + goto free_stack;
> +
> + if (is_kernel_percpu_address((unsigned long)&arch_evt->interrupted)) {
> + arch_evt->interrupted_state_phys =
> + per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
> + } else {
> + arch_evt->interrupted_state_phys =
> + virt_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;

Hi Clément,

Testing SSE support with tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/sbi_pmu_test
led to an opensbi sbi_trap_error because the output_phys_lo address passed
to sbi_sse_read_attrs() wasn't a physical address. The reason is that
is_kernel_percpu_address() can only be used on static percpu addresses,
but local sse events get their percpu addresses with alloc_percpu(), so
is_kernel_percpu_address() was returning false even for local events. I
made the following changes to get things working.

Thanks,
drew

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sse.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sse.c
index b48ae69dad8d..f46893946086 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sse.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sse.c
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ int arch_sse_init_event(struct sse_event_arch_data *arch_evt, u32 evt_id, int cp
if (sse_init_scs(cpu, arch_evt))
goto free_stack;

- if (is_kernel_percpu_address((unsigned long)&arch_evt->interrupted)) {
+ if (sse_event_is_global(evt_id)) {
arch_evt->interrupted_state_phys =
- per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
+ virt_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
} else {
arch_evt->interrupted_state_phys =
- virt_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
+ per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(&arch_evt->interrupted);
}

return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/riscv/riscv_sse.c b/drivers/firmware/riscv/riscv_sse.c
index 511db9ad7a9e..fef375046f75 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/riscv/riscv_sse.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/riscv/riscv_sse.c
@@ -62,11 +62,6 @@ void sse_handle_event(struct sse_event_arch_data *arch_event,
ret);
}

-static bool sse_event_is_global(u32 evt)
-{
- return !!(evt & SBI_SSE_EVENT_GLOBAL);
-}
-
static
struct sse_event *sse_event_get(u32 evt)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/riscv_sse.h b/include/linux/riscv_sse.h
index 16700677f1e8..06b757b036b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/riscv_sse.h
+++ b/include/linux/riscv_sse.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@

#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/sbi.h>

struct sse_event;
struct pt_regs;
@@ -16,6 +17,11 @@ struct ghes;

typedef int (sse_event_handler)(u32 event_num, void *arg, struct pt_regs *regs);

+static inline bool sse_event_is_global(u32 evt)
+{
+ return !!(evt & SBI_SSE_EVENT_GLOBAL);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_SSE

struct sse_event *sse_event_register(u32 event_num, u32 priority,