Re: [PATCH v4 05/16] riscv: Extend cpufeature.c to detect vendor extensions

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On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:03:46PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 10:51:38AM -0700, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 09:44:15AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > +       for (int i = 0; i < riscv_isa_vendor_ext_list_size; i++) {
> > > > > +               const struct riscv_isa_vendor_ext_data_list *ext_list = riscv_isa_vendor_ext_list[i];
> > > > > +
> > > > > +               if (bitmap_empty(ext_list->vendor_bitmap, ext_list->bitmap_size))
> > > > > +                       bitmap_copy(ext_list->vendor_bitmap,
> > > > > +                                   ext_list->per_hart_vendor_bitmap[cpu].isa,
> > > > > +                                   ext_list->bitmap_size);
> > > > 
> > > > Could you get into trouble here if the set of vendor extensions
> > > > reduces to zero, and then becomes non-zero? To illustrate, consider
> > > > these masks:
> > > > cpu 0: 0x0000C000
> > > > cpu 1: 0x00000003 <<< vendor_bitmap ANDs out to 0
> > > > cpu 2: 0x00000010 <<< oops, we end up copying this into vendor_bitmap
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Huh that's a good point. The standard extensions have that same bug too?
> > > 
> > > 	if (bitmap_empty(riscv_isa, RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX))
> > > 		bitmap_copy(riscv_isa, isainfo->isa, RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX);
> > > 	else
> > > 		bitmap_and(riscv_isa, riscv_isa, isainfo->isa, RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX);
> > 
> > I suppose it could in theory, but the boot hart needs ima to even get
> > this far. I think you'd only end up with this happening if there were
> > enabled harts that supported rvXXe, but I don't think we even add those
> > to the possible set of CPUs. I'll have to check.
> 
> Ye, you don't get marked possible if you don't have ima, so I don't
> think this is possible to have happen. Maybe a comment here is
> sufficient, explaining why this cannot reduce to zeros?

Okay cool. A comment is sufficient then.

- Charlie

> 
> 






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