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xen/riscv: make Zihintpause no longer a required extension
Zihintpause is in required_extensions[] so Xen panics when it is missing, while it does not strictly require hardware support for it. The PAUSE hint (Zihintpause extension) is encoded as FENCE W, 0 (0x0100000F). In accordance with the RISC-V Unprivileged ISA, HINTs are encoded in the space of valid standard instructions. On platforms without Zihintpause support, executing 0x0100000F is treated as a standard FENCE with an empty successor set, which acts as a NOP and never generates an illegal instruction trap. Zihintpause is therefore purely an optimization hint. Drop it from required_extensions[] so Xen can still boot on systems that don't advertise it, and print a warning in that case. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Baptiste Le Duc <baptiste.le-duc@vates.tech> Reviewed-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
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@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ them is missing from the riscv,isa property of the CPU nodes:
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a very simple sequence.
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The similar issue occurs with other __builtin_<bitop>, so it is needed to
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provide a generic version of bitops in RISC-V bitops.h
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- Zihintpause:
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On a system that doesn't have this extension, cpu_relax() should be
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implemented properly.
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- Svpbmt:
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Mandatory to enable changing the memory attributes of a page.
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For platforms that do not support Svpbmt, it is necessary to introduce a
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