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authorAndrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>2023-11-22 17:47:04 +0100
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2024-01-03 12:36:49 +0100
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parentRISC-V: Move the hwprobe syscall to its own file (diff)
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RISC-V: hwprobe: Introduce which-cpus flag
Introduce the first flag for the hwprobe syscall. The flag basically reverses its behavior, i.e. instead of populating the values of keys for a given set of cpus, the set of cpus after the call is the result of finding a set which supports the values of the keys. In order to do this, we implement a pair compare function which takes the type of value (a single value vs. a bitmask of booleans) into consideration. We also implement vdso support for the new flag. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122164700.127954-9-ajones@ventanamicro.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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@@ -25,8 +25,21 @@ arch, impl), the returned value will only be valid if all CPUs in the given set
have the same value. Otherwise -1 will be returned. For boolean-like keys, the
value returned will be a logical AND of the values for the specified CPUs.
Usermode can supply NULL for ``cpus`` and 0 for ``cpusetsize`` as a shortcut for
-all online CPUs. There are currently no flags, this value must be zero for
-future compatibility.
+all online CPUs. The currently supported flags are:
+
+* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_WHICH_CPUS`: This flag basically reverses the behavior
+ of sys_riscv_hwprobe(). Instead of populating the values of keys for a given
+ set of CPUs, the values of each key are given and the set of CPUs is reduced
+ by sys_riscv_hwprobe() to only those which match each of the key-value pairs.
+ How matching is done depends on the key type. For value-like keys, matching
+ means to be the exact same as the value. For boolean-like keys, matching
+ means the result of a logical AND of the pair's value with the CPU's value is
+ exactly the same as the pair's value. Additionally, when ``cpus`` is an empty
+ set, then it is initialized to all online CPUs which fit within it, i.e. the
+ CPU set returned is the reduction of all the online CPUs which can be
+ represented with a CPU set of size ``cpusetsize``.
+
+All other flags are reserved for future compatibility and must be zero.
On success 0 is returned, on failure a negative error code is returned.