On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:33:03AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:55:44AM GMT, Anup Patel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 10:25 PM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 08:15:08PM +0800, Yong-Xuan Wang wrote:
> > > > Add entries for the Svade and Svadu extensions to the riscv,isa-extensions
> > > > property.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yong-Xuan Wang <yongxuan.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
> > > > index 468c646247aa..1e30988826b9 100644
> > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
> > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml
> > > > @@ -153,6 +153,36 @@ properties:
> > > > ratified at commit 3f9ed34 ("Add ability to manually trigger
> > > > workflow. (#2)") of riscv-time-compare.
> > > >
> > > > + - const: svade
> > > > + description: |
> > > > + The standard Svade supervisor-level extension for raising page-fault
> > > > + exceptions when PTE A/D bits need be set as ratified in the 20240213
> > > > + version of the privileged ISA specification.
> > > > +
> > > > + Both Svade and Svadu extensions control the hardware behavior when
> > > > + the PTE A/D bits need to be set. The default behavior for the four
> > > > + possible combinations of these extensions in the device tree are:
> > > > + 1. Neither svade nor svadu in DT: default to svade.
> > >
> > > I think this needs to be expanded on, as to why nothing means svade.
> >
> > Actually if both Svade and Svadu are not present in DT then
> > it is left to the platform and OpenSBI does nothing.
>
> This is a good point, and maybe it's worth integrating something that
> states this case is technically unknown into the final text. (Even though
> historically this has been assumed to mean svade.)
If that is assumed to mean svade at the moment, then that's what it has
to mean going forwards also.
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