Hi Anton,

thanks for joining the single-binary effort.
You didn't start with the easiest part :).

On 9/24/25 12:20 AM, Anton Johansson wrote:
Hi,

this is a first patchset moving towards single-binary support for riscv.
Additional patchsets for hw/ and target/ are based on this one so it's
best to make sure the approach taken is ok.  Most patches in this set
concern fields in CPUArchState which are either widened (usually to
uint64_t) or fixed to a smaller size which handles all use cases.

General purpose registers and fields mapped to TCG are dealt with by
widening the type and applying an offset to tcg_global_mem_new() to
correctly handle 32-bit targets on big endian hosts.

Quick question to correct my understanding. AFAICT riscv64-softmmu is a
superset of riscv32-softmmu which handles 32-, 64, and 128-bit ISAs, so
concerning single-binary do we for the time being only need to support
riscv64-softmmu?


Changes to riscv64 will probably impact riscv32 anyway, as they have files in common (that's the tricky part of single binary porting effort).

A possible solution to this could be to duplicate (manually) compilation units between 32 and 64 bits variants, but I don't think it's worth the effort. It's better to do the change for all variants for a given architecture so all the code is cleaned for a given base architecture.

Let me know what you think of the direction taken here and if you would
prefer something else.


Overall, most of the changes you do are correct, widening types, and combining low/high part in single 64 bits integer. For this last part, I'll let Riscv maintainers decide if they agree with the approach.

However, the main issue is that changing size impacts migration (VMSTATE_UINT.*), which would suddenly create a breaking change when importing 32 bits machines.

We have two ways to deal with it:
1. call it a day and make a breaking change.
On Arm side, we were lucky to not have cpu structure defined with any target type, so the problem was not found yet. But we observed that other architectures would need a solution. If Riscv maintainers are ok for a breaking change, this is the easiest/fastest solution.

2. introduce a backward compatibility change, to selectively import size if we import from a past QEMU version. In this case, we would keep the VMSTATE_UINTTL but adapt it to do the right thing when restoring, either writing 32 or 64 bits. I didn't dive deep enough in migration restore code to see if it's easily doable, or not.

Let's see what people think of 1. first. On arm, this is very conservative and migration backward compatibility has to work anyway. Maybe it's more relaxed for riscv.

Anton Johansson (34):
   target/riscv: Use 32 bits for misa extensions
   target/riscv: Fix size of trivial CPUArchState fields
   target/riscv: Fix size of mcause
   target/riscv: Fix size of mhartid
   target/riscv: Bugfix riscv_pmu_ctr_get_fixed_counters_val()
   target/riscv: Combine mhpmevent and mhpmeventh
   target/riscv: Combine mcyclecfg and mcyclecfgh
   target/riscv: Combine minstretcfg and minstretcfgh
   target/riscv: Combine mhpmcounter and mhpmcounterh
   target/riscv: Fix size of gpr and gprh
   target/riscv: Fix size of vector CSRs
   target/riscv: Fix size of pc, load_[val|res]
   target/riscv: Fix size of frm and fflags
   target/riscv: Fix size of badaddr and bins
   target/riscv: Fix size of guest_phys_fault_addr
   target/riscv: Fix size of priv_ver and vext_ver
   target/riscv: Fix size of retxh
   target/riscv: Fix size of ssp
   target/riscv: Fix size of excp_uw2
   target/riscv: Fix size of sw_check_code
   target/riscv: Fix size of priv
   target/riscv: Fix size of gei fields
   target/riscv: Fix size of [m|s|vs]iselect fields
   target/riscv: Fix arguments to board IMSIC emulation callbacks
   target/riscv: Fix size of irq_overflow_left
   target/riscv: Indent PMUFixedCtrState correctly
   target/riscv: Replace target_ulong in riscv_cpu_get_trap_name()
   target/riscv: Replace target_ulong in riscv_ctr_add_entry()
   target/riscv: Fix size of trigger data
   target/riscv: Fix size of mseccfg
   target/riscv: Move debug.h include away from cpu.h
   target/riscv: Move CSR declarations to separate csr.h header
   target/riscv: Introduce externally facing CSR access functions
   target/riscv: Make pmp.h target_ulong agnostic

  target/riscv/cpu.h                            | 341 +++++++-----------
  target/riscv/csr.h                            |  93 +++++
  target/riscv/debug.h                          |   2 -
  target/riscv/pmp.h                            |  20 +-
  hw/intc/riscv_imsic.c                         |  34 +-
  hw/riscv/riscv_hart.c                         |   7 +-
  linux-user/riscv/signal.c                     |   5 +-
  target/riscv/cpu.c                            |  11 +-
  target/riscv/cpu_helper.c                     |  37 +-
  target/riscv/csr.c                            | 284 ++++++++-------
  target/riscv/debug.c                          |   1 +
  target/riscv/fpu_helper.c                     |   6 +-
  target/riscv/gdbstub.c                        |   1 +
  target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c                    |   1 +
  target/riscv/machine.c                        | 133 ++++---
  target/riscv/op_helper.c                      |   1 +
  target/riscv/pmp.c                            |  13 +-
  target/riscv/pmu.c                            | 150 ++------
  target/riscv/tcg/tcg-cpu.c                    |   3 +-
  target/riscv/th_csr.c                         |   1 +
  target/riscv/translate.c                      |  53 ++-
  target/riscv/vector_helper.c                  |  22 +-
  .../riscv/insn_trans/trans_privileged.c.inc   |   2 +-
  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvi.c.inc       |  16 +-
  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvm.c.inc       |  16 +-
  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.c.inc       |  22 +-
  target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvzicfiss.c.inc |  22 +-
  27 files changed, 644 insertions(+), 653 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 target/riscv/csr.h


Thanks,
Pierrick

Reply via email to