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Linux RISC-V ISA 扩展支持

yjmstr 创作于 2023/12/04
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Author: YJMSTR jay1273062855@outlook.com Date: 2023/09/01 Revisor: Bin Meng, Falcon Project: RISC-V Linux 内核剖析 Sponsor: ISCAS

前言

本文是 RISC-V 扩展软硬件支持系列的第 5 篇文章，将介绍 Linux 内核对 RISC-V 扩展的检测与支持方式。建议在阅读本文之前先阅读本系列第一篇文章：《RISC-V 当前指令集扩展类别与检测方式》 以对 RISC-V ISA 扩展目前的命名、分类与硬件检测方式有所了解。

RISC-V 之前使用名为 misa 的 CSR 来检测 ISA 扩展，在 misa 中分配了 26 位，每一位用于标识某扩展/特权模式是否启用，但随着扩展数目增加，misa 的位数不够了。RISC-V 后来引入了一个名为 mconfigptr 的 CSR，该 CSR 中存放有一个地址，指向包含硬件信息的数据结构，固件可以利用这个数据结构来生成 SMBIOS/设备树/ACPI。

SMBIOS 中存放的 ISA 信息仅包含 misa 中的那些，还是不够用。设备树通过一个 ISA string 来表示 ISA 扩展组合，ACPI 则是包含有一个 RHCT（RISC-V Hart Capabilities Table），其中同样包含了一个 ISA string 节点。

PLCT 在 2022 年曾经做过相关的调研工作，当时的 Linux 内核可以通过 cpuinfo/环境变量/HWCAP/SIGILL 等方式在用户空间获取 ISA 扩展信息。

本系列的上一篇文章中介绍了 OpenSBI 的 RISC-V ISA 扩展检测情况，SBI 位于 M 模式，能够直接读取相关 CSR 来获得相应的扩展信息。

获取 Linux 源码

Linux 内核较大，使用 git fetch 可以断点续传，以免网络出问题导致 git clone 中断。

$ mkdir linux-kernel
$ cd linux-kernel
$ git init
$ git fetch https://gitee.com/mirrors/linux_old1.git
$ git checkout FETCH_HEAD
$ git remote add origin https://gitee.com/mirrors/linux_old1.git
$ git pull origin

git checkout 的输出表明：HEAD is now at 2dde18cd1d8f Linux 6.5，本文将基于这一版本进行分析。如果我们想要获取特定版本的 Linux 内核源码，可以从 kernel.org 上下载，也可以在 git pull origin 之后通过 git checkout 切换到指定版本。

编译内核并启动

编译内核需要用到 RISC-V 交叉编译工具链，本系列之前的文章已经介绍过，此处不再赘述：

$ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- defconfig
$ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- -j $(nproc)

嵌入式领域通常使用 busybox 来构建根文件系统，首先下载编译 busybox：

$ git clone https://gitee.com/mirrors/busyboxsource
$ cd busyboxsource
$ export CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-
$ make defconfig
$ make menuconfig
# 这里启用了 Settings-->Build Options 里的 Build static binary (no shared libs) 选项
$ make -j $(nproc)
$ make install

制作文件系统并新建一个启动脚本：

$ cd ~
$ qemu-img create rootfs.img 1g
$ mkfs.ext4 rootfs.img
$ mkdir rootfs
$ sudo mount -o loop rootfs.img rootfs
$ cd rootfs
$ sudo cp -r ../busyboxsource/_install/* .
$ sudo mkdir proc sys dev etc etc/init.d
$ cd etc/init.d/
$ sudo touch rcS
$ sudo vi rcS

编辑启动脚本 rcS 中的内容如下：

#!/bin/sh
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -t sysfs none /sys
/sbin/mdev -s

并修改文件权限：

$ sudo chmod +x rcS
$ cd ~
$ sudo umount rootfs

随后尝试直接引导内核：

$ qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -m 256M -nographic -kernel linux-kernel/arch/riscv/boot/Image -drive file=rootfs.img,format=raw,id=hd0  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -append "root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyS0"

可以得到 Linux 启动日志如下：

$ qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -m 256M -nographic -kernel linux-kernel/arch/riscv/boot/Image -drive file=rootfs.img,format=raw,id=hd0  -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -append "root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyS0"

OpenSBI v1.3.1
   ____                    _____ ____ _____
  / __ \                  / ____|  _ \_   _|
 | |  | |_ __   ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || |
 | |  | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \|  _ < | |
 | |__| | |_) |  __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_
  \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|___/_____|
        | |
        |_|

Platform Name             : riscv-virtio,qemu
Platform Features         : medeleg
Platform HART Count       : 1
Platform IPI Device       : aclint-mswi
Platform Timer Device     : aclint-mtimer @ 10000000Hz
Platform Console Device   : uart8250
Platform HSM Device       : ---
Platform PMU Device       : ---
Platform Reboot Device    : sifive_test
Platform Shutdown Device  : sifive_test
Platform Suspend Device   : ---
Platform CPPC Device      : ---
Firmware Base             : 0x80000000
Firmware Size             : 194 KB
Firmware RW Offset        : 0x20000
Firmware RW Size          : 66 KB
Firmware Heap Offset      : 0x28000
Firmware Heap Size        : 34 KB (total), 2 KB (reserved), 9 KB (used), 22 KB (free)
Firmware Scratch Size     : 4096 B (total), 760 B (used), 3336 B (free)
Runtime SBI Version       : 1.0

Domain0 Name              : root
Domain0 Boot HART         : 0
Domain0 HARTs             : 0*
Domain0 Region00          : 0x0000000002000000-0x000000000200ffff M: (I,R,W) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region01          : 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008001ffff M: (R,X) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region02          : 0x0000000080020000-0x000000008003ffff M: (R,W) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region03          : 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff M: (R,W,X) S/U: (R,W,X)
Domain0 Next Address      : 0x0000000080200000
Domain0 Next Arg1         : 0x000000008fe00000
Domain0 Next Mode         : S-mode
Domain0 SysReset          : yes
Domain0 SysSuspend        : yes

Boot HART ID              : 0
Boot HART Domain          : root
Boot HART Priv Version    : v1.12
Boot HART Base ISA        : rv64imafdch
Boot HART ISA Extensions  : time,sstc
Boot HART PMP Count       : 16
Boot HART PMP Granularity : 4
Boot HART PMP Address Bits: 54
Boot HART MHPM Count      : 16
Boot HART MIDELEG         : 0x0000000000001666
Boot HART MEDELEG         : 0x0000000000f0b509
[    0.000000] Linux version 6.5.0 (mint@linux-lab-host) (riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38) #1 SMP Wed Aug 30 17:20:35 CST 2023
[    0.000000] random: crng init done
[    0.000000] Machine model: riscv-virtio,qemu
[    0.000000] SBI specification v1.0 detected
[    0.000000] SBI implementation ID=0x1 Version=0x10003
[    0.000000] SBI TIME extension detected
[    0.000000] SBI IPI extension detected
[    0.000000] SBI RFENCE extension detected
[    0.000000] SBI SRST extension detected
[    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
[    0.000000] OF: reserved mem: 0x0000000080000000..0x000000008001ffff (128 KiB) nomap non-reusable mmode_resv0@80000000
[    0.000000] OF: reserved mem: 0x0000000080020000..0x000000008003ffff (128 KiB) nomap non-reusable mmode_resv1@80020000
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008003ffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080040000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000] SBI HSM extension detected
[    0.000000] riscv: base ISA extensions acdfhim
[    0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 19 pages/cpu s40888 r8192 d28744 u77824
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyS0
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 64512
[    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]       fixmap : 0xff1bfffffea00000 - 0xff1bffffff000000   (6144 kB)
[    0.000000]       pci io : 0xff1bffffff000000 - 0xff1c000000000000   (  16 MB)
[    0.000000]      vmemmap : 0xff1c000000000000 - 0xff20000000000000   (1024 TB)
[    0.000000]      vmalloc : 0xff20000000000000 - 0xff60000000000000   (16384 TB)
[    0.000000]      modules : 0xffffffff0157b000 - 0xffffffff80000000   (2026 MB)
[    0.000000]       lowmem : 0xff60000000000000 - 0xff60000010000000   ( 256 MB)
[    0.000000]       kernel : 0xffffffff80000000 - 0xffffffffffffffff   (2047 MB)
[    0.000000] Memory: 218332K/262144K available (8728K kernel code, 4974K rwdata, 4096K rodata, 2200K init, 482K bss, 43812K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=64 to nr_cpu_ids=1.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU debug extended QS entry/exit.
[    0.000000] 	Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
[    0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
[    0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped
[    0.000000] plic: plic@c000000: mapped 95 interrupts with 1 handlers for 2 contexts.
[    0.000000] riscv: providing IPIs using SBI IPI extension
[    0.000000] rcu: srcu_init: Setting srcu_struct sizes based on contention.
[    0.000000] clocksource: riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x24e6a1710, max_idle_ns: 440795202120 ns
[    0.000073] sched_clock: 64 bits at 10MHz, resolution 100ns, wraps every 4398046511100ns
[    0.000182] riscv-timer: Timer interrupt in S-mode is available via sstc extension
[    0.008216] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[    0.009505] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 20.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=40000)
[    0.009635] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.010714] LSM: initializing lsm=capability,integrity
[    0.012870] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[    0.012948] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[    0.040252] RCU Tasks Trace: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1.
[    0.040655] riscv: ELF compat mode supported
[    0.041099] ASID allocator using 16 bits (65536 entries)
[    0.042073] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.042107] rcu: 	Max phase no-delay instances is 1000.
[    0.044384] EFI services will not be available.
[    0.045645] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.046625] smp: Brought up 1 node, 1 CPU
[    0.057137] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.064078] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[    0.064309] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[    0.066112] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.072724] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family
[    0.080456] DMA: preallocated 128 KiB GFP_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations
[    0.080750] DMA: preallocated 128 KiB GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32 pool for atomic allocations
[    0.081016] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.084218] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
[    0.084758] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.085806] audit: type=2000 audit(0.040:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.099344] HugeTLB: registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.099384] HugeTLB: 28 KiB vmemmap can be freed for a 2.00 MiB page
[    0.103034] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[    0.104629] iommu: Default domain type: Translated
[    0.104662] iommu: DMA domain TLB invalidation policy: strict mode
[    0.106649] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.108322] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.108532] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.108678] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.119431] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.139122] clocksource: Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource
[    0.141072] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[    0.158856] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family
[    0.159756] IP idents hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[    0.164351] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 128 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[    0.164450] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[    0.164501] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[    0.164727] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[    0.164988] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
[    0.165942] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 2, 24576 bytes, linear)
[    0.166364] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 2, 24576 bytes, linear)
[    0.167395] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family
[    0.170224] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.170280] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.170291] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.170305] RPC: Registered tcp-with-tls transport module.
[    0.170315] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.170463] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
[    0.177633] workingset: timestamp_bits=46 max_order=16 bucket_order=0
[    0.180895] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.181717] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.181750] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.181976] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.182049] nfs4flexfilelayout_init: NFSv4 Flexfile Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.182691] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support
[    0.184022] NET: Registered PF_ALG protocol family
[    0.184294] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 246)
[    0.184406] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[    0.184462] io scheduler kyber registered
[    0.184546] io scheduler bfq registered
[    0.187615] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci: host bridge /soc/pci@30000000 ranges:
[    0.188285] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci:       IO 0x0003000000..0x000300ffff -> 0x0000000000
[    0.188845] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci:      MEM 0x0040000000..0x007fffffff -> 0x0040000000
[    0.188906] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci:      MEM 0x0400000000..0x07ffffffff -> 0x0400000000
[    0.189388] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci: Memory resource size exceeds max for 32 bits
[    0.189752] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci: ECAM at [mem 0x30000000-0x3fffffff] for [bus 00-ff]
[    0.191528] pci-host-generic 30000000.pci: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    0.191752] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[    0.191831] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0xffff]
[    0.191884] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x40000000-0x7fffffff]
[    0.191897] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x400000000-0x7ffffffff]
[    0.193325] pci 0000:00:00.0: [1b36:0008] type 00 class 0x060000
[    0.287202] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.297113] printk: console [ttyS0] disabled
[    0.300265] 10000000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000000 (irq = 12, base_baud = 230400) is a 16550A
[    0.301524] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[    0.323403] SuperH (H)SCI(F) driver initialized
[    0.343215] loop: module loaded
[    0.344307] virtio_blk virtio0: 1/0/0 default/read/poll queues
[    0.348817] virtio_blk virtio0: [vda] 2097152 512-byte logical blocks (1.07 GB/1.00 GiB)
[    0.384041] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
[    0.384260] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
[    0.387880] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[    0.388206] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.389412] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    0.393353] goldfish_rtc 101000.rtc: registered as rtc0
[    0.394317] goldfish_rtc 101000.rtc: setting system clock to 2023-09-02T07:35:32 UTC (1693640132)
[    0.398165] syscon-poweroff poweroff: pm_power_off already claimed for sbi_srst_power_off
[    0.399069] syscon-poweroff: probe of poweroff failed with error -16
[    0.401754] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    0.401947] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    0.402639] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    0.403484] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    0.403664] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    0.404356] riscv-pmu-sbi: SBI PMU extension is available
[    0.405010] riscv-pmu-sbi: 16 firmware and 18 hardware counters
[    0.405216] riscv-pmu-sbi: Perf sampling/filtering is not supported as sscof extension is not available
[    0.410466] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family
[    0.418128] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    0.418632] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
[    0.419337] sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver
[    0.422999] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
[    0.424737] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
[    0.425341] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    0.466679] debug_vm_pgtable: [debug_vm_pgtable         ]: Validating architecture page table helpers
[    0.476006] clk: Disabling unused clocks
[    0.569745] EXT4-fs (vda): recovery complete
[    0.572787] EXT4-fs (vda): mounted filesystem b1c2c62f-2f6d-4da5-af97-58c3648c79f4 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: disabled.
[    0.573412] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 254:0.
[    0.576056] devtmpfs: mounted
[    0.618132] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 2200K
[    0.618994] Run /sbin/init as init process

Please press Enter to activate this console.

Base ISA extensions & ELF capabilities

Linux Kernel 的启动日志中有两行输出如下：

[    0.000000] riscv: base ISA extensions acdfhim
[    0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim

在源码中以 base ISA extensions 作为关键字进行搜索，可以发现 ISA 扩展信息相关的函数位于 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c 这一文件中。这部分代码是在 commit 6bcff51 引入的，其中 riscv_isa 这个 bitmap 用于表示主机上所有 CPU 支持的 ISA 扩展的交集，而 elf_hwcap 仅用于表示与用户空间有关的 ISA 扩展的交集。

相关的函数比较长，下面通过添加中文注释的方式进行分析：

/* arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c:102 */

void __init riscv_fill_hwcap(void)
{
        // hwcap 指 hardware capability
	struct device_node *node;
	const char *isa;
	char print_str[NUM_ALPHA_EXTS + 1];
	int i, j, rc;
	unsigned long isa2hwcap[26] = {0};
	struct acpi_table_header *rhct;
	acpi_status status;
	unsigned int cpu;
	// COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_? == (1 << （字母 ? 的 ASCII 码 - 'A'）)
	isa2hwcap['i' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_I;
	isa2hwcap['m' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_M;
	isa2hwcap['a' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_A;
	isa2hwcap['f' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_F;
	isa2hwcap['d' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_D;
	isa2hwcap['c' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_C;
	isa2hwcap['v' - 'a'] = COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_V;

	elf_hwcap = 0;

	// 将 riscv_isa 这个 bitmap 清零
	bitmap_zero(riscv_isa, RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX);

        // 检测是否启用了 ACPI，如果是，读取 ACPI status
	if (!acpi_disabled) {
		status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_RHCT, 0, &rhct);
		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
			return;
	}

	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
        // struct riscv_isainfo 结构体中包含了一个名为 isa 的长为 64 位的 bitmap
		struct riscv_isainfo *isainfo = &hart_isa[cpu];
        // 当前 cpu 的 hwcap
		unsigned long this_hwcap = 0;

        // 如果没有启用 ACPI，就读取设备树以获取 isa 信息
		if (acpi_disabled) {
                // 获取设备树结点
			node = of_cpu_device_node_get(cpu);
			if (!node) {
				pr_warn("Unable to find cpu node\n");
				continue;
			}
			// 从设备树中读出 isa 字符串
			rc = of_property_read_string(node, "riscv,isa", &isa);
			of_node_put(node);
			if (rc) {
				pr_warn("Unable to find \"riscv,isa\" devicetree entry\n");
				continue;
			}
		} else {
                // 如果启用了 ACPI，通过 ACPI 获取 isa 字符串
			rc = acpi_get_riscv_isa(rhct, cpu, &isa);
			if (rc < 0) {
				pr_warn("Unable to get ISA for the hart - %d\n", cpu);
				continue;
			}
		}

		/*
		 * For all possible cpus, we have already validated in
		 * the boot process that they at least contain "rv" and
		 * whichever of "32"/"64" this kernel supports, and so this
		 * section can be skipped.
		 */
                // isa 字符串必包含 rv+位数共 4 个字符，可以跳过对这四个的检查
		isa += 4;

		while (*isa) {
			const char *ext = isa++;
			const char *ext_end = isa;
                // ext_long 表示是否有多字母扩展
			bool ext_long = false, ext_err = false;

                // 逐字符检查 isa 字符串中的扩展
			switch (*ext) {
			case 's':
				/*
				 * Workaround for invalid single-letter 's' & 'u'(QEMU).
				 * No need to set the bit in riscv_isa as 's' & 'u' are
				 * not valid ISA extensions. It works until multi-letter
				 * extension starting with "Su" appears.
				 */

				if (ext[-1] != '_' && ext[1] == 'u') {
					++isa;
					ext_err = true;
					break;
				}
				fallthrough;
			case 'S':
			case 'x':
			case 'X':
			case 'z':
			case 'Z':
				/*
				 * Before attempting to parse the extension itself, we find its end.
				 * As multi-letter extensions must be split from other multi-letter
				 * extensions with an "_", the end of a multi-letter extension will
				 * either be the null character or the "_" at the start of the next
				 * multi-letter extension.
				 *
				 * Next, as the extensions version is currently ignored, we
				 * eliminate that portion. This is done by parsing backwards from
				 * the end of the extension, removing any numbers. This may be a
				 * major or minor number however, so the process is repeated if a
				 * minor number was found.
				 *
				 * ext_end is intended to represent the first character *after* the
				 * name portion of an extension, but will be decremented to the last
				 * character itself while eliminating the extensions version number.
				 * A simple re-increment solves this problem.
				 */
				ext_long = true;
				for (; *isa && *isa != '_'; ++isa)
					if (unlikely(!isalnum(*isa)))
						ext_err = true;

				ext_end = isa;
				if (unlikely(ext_err))
					break;

				if (!isdigit(ext_end[-1]))
					break;

				while (isdigit(*--ext_end))
					;

				if (tolower(ext_end[0]) != 'p' || !isdigit(ext_end[-1])) {
					++ext_end;
					break;
				}

				while (isdigit(*--ext_end))
					;

				++ext_end;
				break;
			default:
				/*
				 * Things are a little easier for single-letter extensions, as they
				 * are parsed forwards.
				 *
				 * After checking that our starting position is valid, we need to
				 * ensure that, when isa was incremented at the start of the loop,
				 * that it arrived at the start of the next extension.
				 *
				 * If we are already on a non-digit, there is nothing to do. Either
				 * we have a multi-letter extension's _, or the start of an
				 * extension.
				 *
				 * Otherwise we have found the current extension's major version
				 * number. Parse past it, and a subsequent p/minor version number
				 * if present. The `p` extension must not appear immediately after
				 * a number, so there is no fear of missing it.
				 *
				 */
				if (unlikely(!isalpha(*ext))) {
					ext_err = true;
					break;
				}

				if (!isdigit(*isa))
					break;

				while (isdigit(*++isa))
					;

				if (tolower(*isa) != 'p')
					break;

				if (!isdigit(*++isa)) {
					--isa;
					break;
				}

				while (isdigit(*++isa))
					;

				break;
			}

			/*
			 * The parser expects that at the start of an iteration isa points to the
			 * first character of the next extension. As we stop parsing an extension
			 * on meeting a non-alphanumeric character, an extra increment is needed
			 * where the succeeding extension is a multi-letter prefixed with an "_".
			 */
			if (*isa == '_')
				++isa;

#define SET_ISA_EXT_MAP(name, bit)							\
			do {								\
				if ((ext_end - ext == sizeof(name) - 1) &&		\
				     !strncasecmp(ext, name, sizeof(name) - 1) &&	\
				     riscv_isa_extension_check(bit))			\
					set_bit(bit, isainfo->isa);			\
			} while (false)							\

			if (unlikely(ext_err))
				continue;
			if (!ext_long) {
                        	// 如果没有多字母扩展
				int nr = tolower(*ext) - 'a';
				if (riscv_isa_extension_check(nr)) {
                                        // 设置 hwcap
					this_hwcap |= isa2hwcap[nr];
					set_bit(nr, isainfo->isa);
				}
			} else {
 	                	// 判断多字母扩展，检测并设置相应的 bitmap
        	        	// riscv_isa_extension_check 函数会额外检测 Zicbom 与 Zicboz 扩展的一些限制
				/* sorted alphabetically */
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("smaia", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SMAIA);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("ssaia", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSAIA);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("sscofpmf", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSCOFPMF);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("sstc", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSTC);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("svinval", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVINVAL);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("svnapot", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVNAPOT);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("svpbmt", RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVPBMT);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zba", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBA);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zbb", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zbs", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBS);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zicbom", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOM);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zicboz", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOZ);
				SET_ISA_EXT_MAP("zihintpause", RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHINTPAUSE);
			}
#undef SET_ISA_EXT_MAP
		}

		/*
		 * These ones were as they were part of the base ISA when the
		 * port & dt-bindings were upstreamed, and so can be set
		 * unconditionally where `i` is in riscv,isa on DT systems.
		 */

       		// 如果未启用 ACPI，直接无条件将以下扩展在 bitmap 中标记为已启用
		if (acpi_disabled) {
			set_bit(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICSR, isainfo->isa);
			set_bit(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIFENCEI, isainfo->isa);
			set_bit(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR, isainfo->isa);
			set_bit(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHPM, isainfo->isa);
		}

		/*
		 * All "okay" hart should have same isa. Set HWCAP based on
		 * common capabilities of every "okay" hart, in case they don't
		 * have.
		 */
        	// 取出各个 CPU hwcap 的交集作为 elf_hwcap
		if (elf_hwcap)
			elf_hwcap &= this_hwcap;
		else
			elf_hwcap = this_hwcap;

        	// 取出各个 CPU ISA 扩展的 bitmap 的交集作为 riscv_isa
		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);
	}
	// 如果启用了 ACPI，并且存在 RHCT
    	// RHCT 指 RISC-V Hart Capabilities Table，是 RISC-V CPU 与 OS 之间交流 CPU 的功能特性时使用的表格结构
	if (!acpi_disabled && rhct)
		acpi_put_table((struct acpi_table_header *)rhct);

	/* We don't support systems with F but without D, so mask those out
	 * here. */
    	// Linux 要求若启用了 F 扩展，D 扩展必须同时启用，否则就关闭 F 扩展
	if ((elf_hwcap & COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_F) && !(elf_hwcap & COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_D)) {
		pr_info("This kernel does not support systems with F but not D\n");
		elf_hwcap &= ~COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_F;
	}

	if (elf_hwcap & COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_V) {
		riscv_v_setup_vsize();
		/*
		 * ISA string in device tree might have 'v' flag, but
		 * CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V is disabled in kernel.
		 * Clear V flag in elf_hwcap if CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V is disabled.
		 */
        	// 如果 config 里没有启用 V 扩展，但是设备树的 ISA string 里包含了 V 扩展，则在 elf_hwcap 中将 V 扩展标记为未启用
		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V))
			elf_hwcap &= ~COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_V;
	}

	memset(print_str, 0, sizeof(print_str));
	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < NUM_ALPHA_EXTS; i++)
		if (riscv_isa[0] & BIT_MASK(i))
			print_str[j++] = (char)('a' + i);
    	// 按照字典序输出启用的单字母扩展
	pr_info("riscv: base ISA extensions %s\n", print_str);

	memset(print_str, 0, sizeof(print_str));
	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < NUM_ALPHA_EXTS; i++)
		if (elf_hwcap & BIT_MASK(i))
			print_str[j++] = (char)('a' + i);
    	// 按照字典序输出 ELF 支持的扩展
	pr_info("riscv: ELF capabilities %s\n", print_str);
}

将上述代码简单总结一下：

  • S-mode 的 Linux 内核会通过 ACPI 或设备树中的 ISA string 得到 RISC-V ISA 扩展信息，但不是直接拿来用，而是会进行一些合法性检测与其它设置，例如：内核中 F 扩展和 D 扩展要么都启用，要么都不启用。
  • 内核最终输出的所支持的 ISA，是各个 hart 所支持的 ISA 的交集，并在此基础上应用一些 config 配置文件中有关 ISA 扩展的设置。
  • 未启用 ACPI 时，Linux 内核通过设备树中的 ISA string 获得扩展信息，此时 Zicsr，Zifencei，Zicntr，Zihpm 扩展会无条件启用。
  • 启用 ACPI 时，Linux 会尝试获取 ACPI 中用于向 OS 传递 CPU 信息的 RHCT（RISC-V Hart Capabilities Table）结构，如果存在 RHCT，就从中读取出 ISA string。

上述代码所检测的这些扩展在 bitmap 中所对应的位号定义在 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h 中，每个扩展对应一个位，其中低 26 位用于单字母扩展，多字母扩展对应的位号从 27 开始分配，bitmap 的最大容量为 64：

/* arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h:16 */

#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_a		('a' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_c		('c' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_d		('d' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_f		('f' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_h		('h' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_i		('i' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_m		('m' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_s		('s' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_u		('u' - 'a')
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_v		('v' - 'a')

/*
 * These macros represent the logical IDs of each multi-letter RISC-V ISA
 * extension and are used in the ISA bitmap. The logical IDs start from
 * RISCV_ISA_EXT_BASE, which allows the 0-25 range to be reserved for single
 * letter extensions. The maximum, RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX, is defined in order
 * to allocate the bitmap and may be increased when necessary.
 *
 * New extensions should just be added to the bottom, rather than added
 * alphabetically, in order to avoid unnecessary shuffling.
 */
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_BASE		26

#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSCOFPMF		26
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSTC		27
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVINVAL		28
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVPBMT		29
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB		30
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOM		31
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHINTPAUSE	32
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVNAPOT		33
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOZ		34
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SMAIA		35
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSAIA		36
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBA		37
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBS		38
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICNTR		39
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICSR		40
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIFENCEI		41
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHPM		42

#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX		64
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_NAME_LEN_MAX	32

#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SxAIA		RISCV_ISA_EXT_SMAIA
#else
#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_SxAIA		RISCV_ISA_EXT_SSAIA
#endif

但解析 ISA string 面临着诸多问题，从上述代码也可以看出来对 ISA string 的解析比较繁琐且容易出错，相关讨论见 邮件列表：

There’s been a bunch of off-list discussions about this, including at Plumbers. The original plan was to do something involving providing an ISA string to userspace, but ISA strings just aren’t sufficient for a stable ABI any more: in order to parse an ISA string users need the version of the specifications that the string is written to, the version of each extension (sometimes at a finer granularity than the RISC-V releases/versions encode), and the expected use case for the ISA string (ie, is it a U-mode or M-mode string). That’s a lot of complexity to try and keep ABI compatible and it’s probably going to continue to grow, as even if there’s no more complexity in the specifications we’ll have to deal with the various ISA string parsing oddities that end up all over userspace.

于是 Linux Kernel 又在用户空间引入了新的系统调用，详见下一小节。

RISC-V Hardware Probing Interface

上一小节中提到的 elf_hwcap 仅有 64 位可用，但用户空间需要检测的扩展可能不止 64 个，因此上述机制同样面临位数不够的问题。

为了解决这些问题，Linux 内核在 commit ea3de9c 中引入了一个用于在用户空间进行硬件检测的系统调用，相关文档见

Documentation/riscv/hwprobe.rst。该系统调用的参数包括一个键值对数组，键值对的个数，CPU 个数，CPU set 与一个 flag，目前支持检测 m{arch,imp,vendor}id 和少数 ISA 扩展，未来能够基于键值对参数进行更多的检测：

struct riscv_hwprobe {
  __s64 key;
  __u64 value;
};

long sys_riscv_hwprobe(struct riscv_hwprobe *pairs, size_t pair_count, size_t cpu_count, cpu_set_t *cpus, unsigned int flags);

其中与扩展检测相关的 C 代码如下：

/* arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c:125 */

static void hwprobe_isa_ext0(struct riscv_hwprobe *pair,
			     const struct cpumask *cpus)
{
	int cpu;
	u64 missing = 0;

	pair->value = 0;
	if (has_fpu())
		pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_IMA_FD;

	if (riscv_isa_extension_available(NULL, c))
		pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_IMA_C;

	if (has_vector())
		pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_IMA_V;

	/*
	 * Loop through and record extensions that 1) anyone has, and 2) anyone
	 * doesn't have.
	 */
	for_each_cpu(cpu, cpus) {
		struct riscv_isainfo *isainfo = &hart_isa[cpu];

		if (riscv_isa_extension_available(isainfo->isa, ZBA))
			pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBA;
		else
			missing |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBA;

		if (riscv_isa_extension_available(isainfo->isa, ZBB))
			pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBB;
		else
			missing |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBB;

		if (riscv_isa_extension_available(isainfo->isa, ZBS))
			pair->value |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBS;
		else
			missing |= RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZBS;
	}

	/* Now turn off reporting features if any CPU is missing it. */
	pair->value &= ~missing;
}

上述这段代码检查 IMAFDCV_Zba_Zbb_Zbs 这些扩展是否受支持。其中 F 和 D 扩展是绑定的，Linux 内核中这两个扩展要么都启用，要么都关闭。

总结

本文通过对 riscv_fill_hwcap 函数的分析，介绍了 Linux 利用设备树/ACPI 检测 RISC-V ISA 扩展并生成 HWCAP 的方式，并介绍了 Linux 新引入的硬件检测系统调用 hw_probe。

2022 年，PLCT 曾经做过有关 RISC-V ISA 扩展检测机制的调研，当时的 Linux 内核通过 M 模式传递来的设备树/SMBIOS/ACPI 中所包含的信息来在检测 ISA 扩展，而用户态可以通过 HWCAP/cpuinfo/环境变量/SIGILL 等方式对 RISC-V ISA 进行检测，但大部分方法本质上都是基于 ISA-string，对 ISA-string 的解析容易出错，且用户态缺少相应的硬件检测系统调用。

如今，用户空间的 RISC-V ISA 检测机制发生了一些变化，在 Linux v6.4 版本中引入了新的系统调用 hw_probe，用于检测硬件。目前这一系统调用支持的功能比较少，但它能够解决 HWCAP 位数不够用，用户空间缺少硬件检测的系统调用等问题。

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