Re: [PATCH v2] riscv: Add support to no-FPU systems

From: Alan Kao
Date: Sun Aug 05 2018 - 19:32:15 EST


On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 09:03:00PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:23:43 PDT (-0700), Andrew Waterman wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:22:26 PDT (-0700), alankao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>
> >>>This patch adds an option, CONFIG_FPU, to enable/disable floating
> >>>procedures. Also, some style issues are fixed.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Zong Li <zong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>---
> >>> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 9 ++++
> >>> arch/riscv/Makefile | 19 +++----
> >>> arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h | 6 +++
> >>> arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 3 +-
> >>> arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 7 ++-
> >>> arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>> 6 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >>>index 6debcc4afc72..6069597ba73f 100644
> >>>--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >>>+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >>>@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ config RISCV_BASE_PMU
> >>>
> >>> endmenu
> >>>
> >>>+config FPU
> >>>+ bool "FPU support"
> >>>+ default y
> >>>+ help
> >>>+ Say N here if you want to disable all floating-point related
> >>>procedure
> >>>+ in the kernel.
> >>>+
> >>>+ If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
> >>>+
> >>> endmenu
> >>
> >>
> >>Sorry for letting this slide for a bit. While I'm not opposed to a solution
> >>that requires a FPU Kconfig option, it'd be a bit better if we could detect
> >>this at boot time. I think this should be possible because at one point
> >>this actually worked and we could boot the same kernel on FPU and no-FPU
> >>systems.
> >
> >I believe it would suffice to have start_thread set sstatus.FS to OFF
> >for no-FPU systems (vs. INITIAL for systems with FPU). The ISA
> >string in the devicetree should indicate whether F/D extensions are
> >present.
> >
> >That said, it makes sense to me to additionally provide the Kconfig
> >option. This would elide the sstatus.SD check for no-FPU systems,
> >shaving a couple instructions off the context-switch path. It would
> >also enable mimicking the behavior of a no-FPU system even when the
> >FPU is present.
>
> That sounds like a good argument. Do you mind submitting a two-part patch
> set, to:
>
> * Allow FPU kernels to detect and run correctly on non-FPU systems. You
> should be able to detect these very early by writing to sstatus, or later
> by looking at the device tree.
> * Add a Kconfig option to disable the FPU entirely (which is pretty much
> this patch).
>
> Thanks!
>

Thanks for the feedback from all of you.

We will fix v3 according to Christph's suggestions,
and append a new patch of the auto-detecting feature.