Fix the following issues with misaligned vector load/store:
a. Stack overflow: the mask[VLEN_MAX / 8] variable consumes 8K stack
space, given VLEN_MAX=65536, overflowing the default-sized stack.
There's no need to fetch the whole mask in one go, instead, make it
on-demand. Use a 128-byte mask as local buffer to hold the sliding
window of mask. For rvv load, this is allowed -- from the spec:
"The destination vector register group for a masked vector
instruction cannot overlap the source mask register (v0),
unless the destination vector register is being written with
a mask value (e.g., compares) or the scalar result of a reduction"
We don't need to worry about the mask getting overwritten.
b. Maintain the value of vstart upon abort (uptrap) to avoid duplicate
work. After fault resolution, the instruction can restart from the
faulting vstart. For Fault-Only-First loads, reset vstart to 0, as
previously done so, to conform to spec.
c. Explicitly set VS dirty in VSSTATUS with SET_VS_DIRTY() if faulting
from V=1, and if any vector register, including vstart/vl/vtype, gets
changed in the handler. It can add 1 unnecessary op to set VS dirty
in M/SSTATUS (not VSSTATUS), where the HW already did, but for code
simplicity, do it anyway. The overhead should be negligible.
Signed-off-by: Bo Gan <ganboing@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Anirudh Srinivasan <asrinivasan@oss.tenstorrent.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260609060024.706-5-ganboing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Eager context switch: Add support for saving and restoring RISC-V vector
extension state in OpenSBI. This introduces a per-hart vector context
structure and helper routines to perform full context save and restore.
The vector context includes vcsr CSRs along with storage for all 32 vector
registers. The register state is saved and restored using byte-wise vector
load/store instructions (vs8r/vl8r).
The implementation follows an eager context switching model where the entire
vector state is saved and restored on every context switch. This provides a
simple and deterministic mechanism without requiring lazy trap-based
management.
Signed-off-by: Dave Patel <dave.patel@riscstar.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260518083023.997323-2-anup.patel@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Bo Gan