Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] riscv: Add vector ISA support

[Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>]

Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> 於 2020年5月31日 週日 下午11:52寫道：
>
> Hi Greentime & Vincent,
>
> Thx for the dynamic vlen implementation. I've two suggestions:
>  - Please give out glibc patches mail URL, we need to review them together.
>  - We need to consider that not all processes need vectors. Most
> system processes do not have vector features, and we should not force
> save/restore vector for every process.
>

Hi Guo,

Thanks for reviewing the patch. We are still cooking the glibc patch,
we will add the glibc link address once we post it.
For the save/restore mechanism in signal, it is basically the same
with FPU porting, we can optimize it when setup_sigcontext() for both
FPU and VECTOR in the future.

/* Save the floating-point state. */
if (has_fpu)
        err |= save_fp_state(regs, &sc->sc_fpregs);
/* Save the vector state. */
if (has_vector)
        err |= save_v_state(regs, sc);

There should be a better way to detect whether this task use
fpu/vector or not. Might be elf attributes or something else.

> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 3:03 PM Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patchset is based on Guo Ren's v3 patchset to add dynamic vlen vector
> > support for all different kinds of vector length in riscv. To make this
> > happened we defined a new __riscv_v_state in sigcontext to save the vector
> > related registers. The datap pointer will be allocated dynamically in
> > kernel space and it will be put right after the __riscv_v_state data
> > structure to save all the vector registers in signal handler stack for user
> > space. So does the implementation in ptrace, they will be saved in ubuf
> > in which we put the __riscv_v_state data structure and datap pointer right
> > after it for vector registers. This patchset also fixes several bugs for
> > vector lazy save/restore and vtype not saving issue. It also adds new CSR
> > support for vector based on the 0.9 vector spec and clean up some unused
> > macros.
> >
> > This patchset is rebased to v5.7-rc4 and it is tested by running several
> > vector programs simultaneously. It also can get the correct ucontext_t in
> > signal handler and restore correct context after sigreturn. It is also
> > tested with ptrace() syscall to use PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET to
> > get/set the vector registers. I have tested vlen=128 and vlen=256 cases in
> > virt machine of qemu-system-riscv32 and qemu-system-riscv64 provided by
> > Zhiwei Lui.
> >
> > Since the vector spec is under developing, there might still need some
> > changes. For example the vle.v/vse.v instructions will be replaced with
> > proper instructions. The reason that I don't replace the instruction in
> > this patchset is because that the Qemu doesn't fully support 0.9 spec yet.
> > I have no simulator to test. We also like to discuss the default setting of
> > MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ. They might also need to set a proper number. They
> > are 2048 and 8096 now. Since the stack in signal will be reserved for
> > ucontext and the vector registers might be larger and larger someday, these
> > two macros will need to be defined as a proper value or maybe we should
> > provide a better mechanism to provide user to get a better default signal
> > stack size.
> >
> >
> >  [1] https://github.com/romanheros/qemu/tree/linux-vector-dev
> >  [2] https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/sessions/4671.html
> >  [3] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.adoc
> >
> > ---
> > Changelog V4
> >  - Support dynamic vlen
> >  - Fix bugs: lazy save/resotre, not saving vtype
> >  - Update VS bit offset based on latest vector spec
> >  - Add new vector csr based on latest vector spec
> >  - Code refine and removed unused macros
> >
> > Changelog V3
> >  - Rebase linux-5.6-rc3 and tested with qemu
> >  - Seperate patches with Anup's advice
> >  - Give out a ABI puzzle with unlimited vlen
> >
> > Changelog V2
> >  - Fixup typo "vecotr, fstate_save->vstate_save".
> >  - Fixup wrong saved registers' length in vector.S.
> >  - Seperate unrelated patches from this one.
> >
> > Greentime Hu (1):
> >   ptrace: Use regset_size() for dynamic regset size.
> >
> > Guo Ren (11):
> >   riscv: Separate patch for cflags and aflags
> >   riscv: Rename __switch_to_aux -> fpu
> >   riscv: Extending cpufeature.c to detect V-extension
> >   riscv: Add new csr defines related to vector extension
> >   riscv: Add vector feature to compile
> >   riscv: Add has_vector/riscv_vsize to save vector features.
> >   riscv: Reset vector register
> >   riscv: Add vector struct and assembler definitions
> >   riscv: Add task switch support for vector
> >   riscv: Add ptrace vector support
> >   riscv: Add sigcontext save/restore for vector
> >
> > Vincent Chen (1):
> >   riscv: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
> >
> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig                       |   9 ++
> >  arch/riscv/Makefile                      |  19 ++--
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h             |  16 +++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h             |  17 +++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h       |   3 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h       |  77 ++++++++++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h     |   2 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/elf.h        |   1 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h      |   1 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h     |  13 +++
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h |   2 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile               |   1 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c          |   8 ++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c           |  15 ++-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S                |   2 +-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/head.S                 |  49 +++++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/process.c              |  40 ++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c               | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c                |   5 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c               | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/vector.S               |  84 +++++++++++++++++
> >  include/uapi/linux/elf.h                 |   1 +
> >  kernel/ptrace.c                          |  11 ++-
> >  23 files changed, 573 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/vector.S
> >
> > --
> > 2.26.2
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>  Guo Ren
>
> ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/