Export the Zihintpause ISA extension through hwprobe which allows using
"pause" instructions. Some userspace applications (OpenJDK for
instance) uses this to handle some locking back-off.
Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cleger@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221083108.1235311-1-cleger@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
manual starting from commit 95cf1f9 ("Add changes requested by Ved
during signoff")
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZIHINTPAUSE`: The Zihintpause extension is
+ supported as defined in the RISC-V ISA manual starting from commit
+ d8ab5c78c207 ("Zihintpause is ratified").
+
* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0`: A bitmask that contains performance
information about the selected set of processors.
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZTSO (1ULL << 33)
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZACAS (1ULL << 34)
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICOND (1ULL << 35)
+#define RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZIHINTPAUSE (1ULL << 36)
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0 5
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN (0 << 0)
#define RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_EMULATED (1 << 0)
EXT_KEY(ZTSO);
EXT_KEY(ZACAS);
EXT_KEY(ZICOND);
+ EXT_KEY(ZIHINTPAUSE);
if (has_vector()) {
EXT_KEY(ZVBB);