RVV defines a total of 12 different extensions, including:
- 5 different instruction subsets:
- Zve32x: 8-, 16- and 32-bit integers,
- Zve32f: Zve32x plus single precision floats,
- Zve64x: Zve32x plus 64-bit integers,
- Zve64f: Zve32f plus Zve64x,
- Zve64d: Zve64f plus double precision floats.
- 6 different vector lengths:
- Zvl32b (embedded only),
- Zvl64b (embedded only),
- Zvl128b,
- Zvl256b,
- Zvl512b,
- Zvl1024b,
- and the V extension proper: equivalent to Zve64f and Zvl128b.
In total, there are 6 different possible sets of supported instructions
(including the empty set), but for convenience we allocate one bit for
each type sets: up-to-32-bit ints (RVV_I32), floats (RVV_F32),
64-bit ints (RVV_I64) and doubles (RVV_F64).
Whence the vector size is needed, it can be retrieved by reading the
unprivileged read-only vlenb CSR. This should probably be a separate
helper macro if needed at a later point.
This introduces compile-time and run-time CPU detection on RISC-V. In
practice, I doubt that FFmpeg will ever see a RISC-V CPU without all of
I, F and D extensions, and if it does, it probably won't have run-time
detection. So the flags are essentially always set.
But as things stand, checkasm wants them that way. Compare the ARMV8
flag on AArch64. We are nowhere near running short on CPU flag bits.
If the target supports the Basic bit-manipulation (Zbb) extension, then
the REV8 instruction is available to reverse byte order.
Note that this instruction only exists at the "XLEN" register size,
so we need to right shift the result down to the data width.
If Zbb is not supported, then this patchset does nothing. Support for
run-time detection is left for the future. Currently, there are no
bits in auxv/ELF HWCAP for Z-extensions, so there are no clean ways to
do this.
This uses the architected RISC-V 64-bit cycle counter from the
RISC-V unprivileged instruction set.
In 64-bit and 128-bit, this is a straightforward CSR read.
In 32-bit mode, the 64-bit value is exposed as two CSRs, which
cannot be read atomically, so a loop is necessary to detect and fix up
the race condition where the bottom half wraps exactly between the two
reads.
Rémi Denis-Courmont