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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-02-25 22:14:08 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-02-25 22:14:08 +0300 |
commit | 01687e7c935ef70eca69ea2d468020bc93e898dc (patch) | |
tree | 2e615dec7e27f6cc9895b8efcb93646a990b709f /Documentation/riscv/uabi.rst | |
parent | d0a32f5520a33e7f2ace396db6913625e0d29544 (diff) | |
parent | eb9be8310c58c166f9fae3b71c0ad9d6741b4897 (diff) | |
download | linux-01687e7c935ef70eca69ea2d468020bc93e898dc.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.3-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
"There's a bunch of fixes/cleanups throughout the tree as usual, but we
also have a handful of new features:
- Various improvements to the extension detection and alternative
patching infrastructure
- Zbb-optimized string routines
- Support for cpu-capacity in the RISC-V DT bindings
- Zicbom no longer depends on toolchain support
- Some performance and code size improvements to ftrace
- Support for ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
- Oops now contain the faulting instruction"
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.3-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (67 commits)
RISC-V: add a spin_shadow_stack declaration
riscv: mm: hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
riscv: Add header include guards to insn.h
riscv: alternative: proceed one more instruction for auipc/jalr pair
riscv: Avoid enabling interrupts in die()
riscv, mm: Perform BPF exhandler fixup on page fault
RISC-V: take text_mutex during alternative patching
riscv: hwcap: Don't alphabetize ISA extension IDs
RISC-V: fix ordering of Zbb extension
riscv: jump_label: Fixup unaligned arch_static_branch function
RISC-V: Only provide the single-letter extensions in HWCAP
riscv: mm: fix regression due to update_mmu_cache change
scripts/decodecode: Add support for RISC-V
riscv: Add instruction dump to RISC-V splats
riscv: select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN for !XIP_KERNEL
riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: explicitly catch .init.bss sections from EFI stub
riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: explicitly catch .riscv.attributes sections
riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: explicitly catch .rela.dyn symbols
riscv: lds: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
RISC-V: move some stray __RISCV_INSN_FUNCS definitions from kprobes
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diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/uabi.rst b/Documentation/riscv/uabi.rst index 21a82cfb6c4d..8960fac42c40 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/uabi.rst +++ b/Documentation/riscv/uabi.rst @@ -3,4 +3,46 @@ RISC-V Linux User ABI ===================== +ISA string ordering in /proc/cpuinfo +------------------------------------ + +The canonical order of ISA extension names in the ISA string is defined in +chapter 27 of the unprivileged specification. +The specification uses vague wording, such as should, when it comes to ordering, +so for our purposes the following rules apply: + +#. Single-letter extensions come first, in canonical order. + The canonical order is "IMAFDQLCBKJTPVH". + +#. All multi-letter extensions will be separated from other extensions by an + underscore. + +#. Additional standard extensions (starting with 'Z') will be sorted after + single-letter extensions and before any higher-privileged extensions. + +#. For additional standard extensions, the first letter following the 'Z' + conventionally indicates the most closely related alphabetical + extension category. If multiple 'Z' extensions are named, they will be + ordered first by category, in canonical order, as listed above, then + alphabetically within a category. + +#. Standard supervisor-level extensions (starting with 'S') will be listed + after standard unprivileged extensions. If multiple supervisor-level + extensions are listed, they will be ordered alphabetically. + +#. Standard machine-level extensions (starting with 'Zxm') will be listed + after any lower-privileged, standard extensions. If multiple machine-level + extensions are listed, they will be ordered alphabetically. + +#. Non-standard extensions (starting with 'X') will be listed after all standard + extensions. If multiple non-standard extensions are listed, they will be + ordered alphabetically. + +An example string following the order is:: + + rv64imadc_zifoo_zigoo_zafoo_sbar_scar_zxmbaz_xqux_xrux + +Misaligned accesses +------------------- + Misaligned accesses are supported in userspace, but they may perform poorly. |