[[supervisor]] == Supervisor-Level ISA, Version 1.12 This chapter describes the RISC-V supervisor-level architecture, which contains a common core that is used with various supervisor-level address translation and protection schemes. Supervisor mode is deliberately restricted in terms of interactions with underlying physical hardware, such as physical memory and device interrupts, to support clean virtualization. In this spirit, certain supervisor-level facilities, including requests for timer and interprocessor interrupts, are provided by implementation-specific mechanisms. In some systems, a supervisor execution environment (SEE) provides these facilities in a manner specified by a supervisor binary interface (SBI). Other systems supply these facilities directly, through some other implementation-defined mechanism. === Supervisor CSRs A number of CSRs are provided for the supervisor. The supervisor should only view CSR state that should be visible to a supervisor-level operating system. In particular, there is no information about the existence (or non-existence) of higher privilege levels (machine level or other) visible in the CSRs accessible by the supervisor. Many supervisor CSRs are a subset of the equivalent machine-mode CSR, and the machine-mode chapter should be read first to help understand the supervisor-level CSR descriptions. [[sstatus]] ==== Supervisor Status Register (`sstatus)` The `sstatus` register is an SXLEN-bit read/write register formatted as shown in Figure link:#sstatusreg-rv32[[sstatusreg-rv32]] when SXLEN=32 and Figure link:#sstatusreg[[sstatusreg]] when SXLEN=64. The `sstatus` register keeps track of the processor’s current operating state. cEcccc + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 11 & 1 & 1 & 1 & + cWWWWccccWcc + & & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & & + & 2 & 2 & 2 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 3 & 1 & 1 + cMFScccc + & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & + & 29 & 2 & 12 & 1 & 1 & 1 & + cWWWWccccWcc + & & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & & + & 2 & 2 & 2 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 3 & 1 & 1 + The SPP bit indicates the privilege level at which a hart was executing before entering supervisor mode. When a trap is taken, SPP is set to 0 if the trap originated from user mode, or 1 otherwise. When an SRET instruction (see Section link:#otherpriv[[otherpriv]]) is executed to return from the trap handler, the privilege level is set to user mode if the SPP bit is 0, or supervisor mode if the SPP bit is 1; SPP is then set to 0. The SIE bit enables or disables all interrupts in supervisor mode. When SIE is clear, interrupts are not taken while in supervisor mode. When the hart is running in user-mode, the value in SIE is ignored, and supervisor-level interrupts are enabled. The supervisor can disable individual interrupt sources using the `sie` CSR. The SPIE bit indicates whether supervisor interrupts were enabled prior to trapping into supervisor mode. When a trap is taken into supervisor mode, SPIE is set to SIE, and SIE is set to 0. When an SRET instruction is executed, SIE is set to SPIE, then SPIE is set to 1. The `sstatus` register is a subset of the `mstatus` register. In a straightforward implementation, reading or writing any field in `sstatus` is equivalent to reading or writing the homonymous field in `mstatus`. ===== Base ISA Control in `sstatus` Register The UXL field controls the value of XLEN for U-mode, termed _UXLEN_, which may differ from the value of XLEN for S-mode, termed _SXLEN_. The encoding of UXL is the same as that of the MXL field of `misa`, shown in Table link:#misabase[[misabase]]. When SXLEN=32, the UXL field does not exist, and UXLEN=32. When SXLEN=64, it is a  field that encodes the current value of UXLEN. In particular, an implementation may make UXL be a read-only field whose value always ensures that UXLEN=SXLEN. If UXLEN latexmath:[$\ne$] SXLEN, instructions executed in the narrower mode must ignore source register operand bits above the configured XLEN, and must sign-extend results to fill the widest supported XLEN in the destination register. If UXLEN latexmath:[$<$] SXLEN, user-mode instruction-fetch addresses and load and store effective addresses are taken modulo latexmath:[$2^{\text{UXLEN}}$]. For example, when UXLEN=32 and SXLEN=64, user-mode memory accesses reference the lowest of the address space. [[sec:sum]] ===== Memory Privilege in `sstatus` Register The MXR (Make eXecutable Readable) bit modifies the privilege with which loads access virtual memory. When MXR=0, only loads from pages marked readable (R=1 in Figure <>) will succeed. When MXR=1, loads from pages marked either readable or executable (R=1 or X=1) will succeed. MXR has no effect when page-based virtual memory is not in effect. The SUM (permit Supervisor User Memory access) bit modifies the privilege with which S-mode loads and stores access virtual memory. When SUM=0, S-mode memory accesses to pages that are accessible by U-mode (U=1 in Figure <>) will fault. When SUM=1, these accesses are permitted. SUM has no effect when page-based virtual memory is not in effect, nor when executing in U-mode. Note that S-mode can never execute instructions from user pages, regardless of the state of SUM. SUM is read-only 0 if `satp`.MODE is read-only 0. The SUM mechanism prevents supervisor software from inadvertently accessing user memory. Operating systems can execute the majority of code with SUM clear; the few code segments that should access user memory can temporarily set SUM. The SUM mechanism does not avail S-mode software of permission to execute instructions in user code pages. Legitimate uses cases for execution from user memory in supervisor context are rare in general and nonexistent in POSIX environments. However, bugs in supervisors that lead to arbitrary code execution are much easier to exploit if the supervisor exploit code can be stored in a user buffer at a virtual address chosen by an attacker. Some non-POSIX single address space operating systems do allow certain privileged software to partially execute in supervisor mode, while most programs run in user mode, all in a shared address space. This use case can be realized by mapping the physical code pages at multiple virtual addresses with different permissions, possibly with the assistance of the instruction page-fault handler to direct supervisor software to use the alternate mapping. ===== Endianness Control in `sstatus` Register The UBE bit is a  field that controls the endianness of explicit memory accesses made from U-mode, which may differ from the endianness of memory accesses in S-mode. An implementation may make UBE be a read-only field that always specifies the same endianness as for S-mode. UBE controls whether explicit load and store memory accesses made from U-mode are little-endian (UBE=0) or big-endian (UBE=1). UBE has no effect on instruction fetches, which are _implicit_ memory accesses that are always little-endian. For _implicit_ accesses to supervisor-level memory management data structures, such as page tables, S-mode endianness always applies and UBE is ignored. Standard RISC-V ABIs are expected to be purely little-endian-only or big-endian-only, with no accommodation for mixing endianness. Nevertheless, endianness control has been defined so as to permit an OS of one endianness to execute user-mode programs of the opposite endianness. ==== Supervisor Trap Vector Base Address Register (`stvec`) The `stvec` register is an SXLEN-bit read/write register that holds trap vector configuration, consisting of a vector base address (BASE) and a vector mode (MODE). J@R & + & + SXLEN-2 & 2 + The BASE field in `stvec` is a  field that can hold any valid virtual or physical address, subject to the following alignment constraints: the address must be 4-byte aligned, and MODE settings other than Direct might impose additional alignment constraints on the value in the BASE field. [cols=">,^,<",options="header",] |=== |Value |Name |Description |0 |Direct |All exceptions set `pc` to BASE. |1 |Vectored |Asynchronous interrupts set `pc` to BASE+4latexmath:[$\times$]cause. |latexmath:[$\ge$]2 |— |_Reserved_ |=== The encoding of the MODE field is shown in Table link:#stvec-mode[[stvec-mode]]. When MODE=Direct, all traps into supervisor mode cause the `pc` to be set to the address in the BASE field. When MODE=Vectored, all synchronous exceptions into supervisor mode cause the `pc` to be set to the address in the BASE field, whereas interrupts cause the `pc` to be set to the address in the BASE field plus four times the interrupt cause number. For example, a supervisor-mode timer interrupt (see Table link:#scauses[[scauses]]) causes the `pc` to be set to BASE+`0x14`. Setting MODE=Vectored may impose a stricter alignment constraint on BASE. ==== Supervisor Interrupt Registers (`sip` and `sie`) The `sip` register is an SXLEN-bit read/write register containing information on pending interrupts, while `sie` is the corresponding SXLEN-bit read/write register containing interrupt enable bits. Interrupt cause number _i_ (as reported in CSR `scause`, Section #sec:scause[1.1.8]) corresponds with bit _i_ in both `sip` and `sie`. Bits 15:0 are allocated to standard interrupt causes only, while bits 16 and above are designated for platform or custom use. @J + + SXLEN + @J + + SXLEN + An interrupt _i_ will trap to S-mode if both of the following are true: (a) either the current privilege mode is S and the SIE bit in the `sstatus` register is set, or the current privilege mode has less privilege than S-mode; and (b) bit _i_ is set in both `sip` and `sie`. These conditions for an interrupt trap to occur must be evaluated in a bounded amount of time from when an interrupt becomes, or ceases to be, pending in `sip`, and must also be evaluated immediately following the execution of an SRET instruction or an explicit write to a CSR on which these interrupt trap conditions expressly depend (including `sip`, `sie` and `sstatus`). Interrupts to S-mode take priority over any interrupts to lower privilege modes. Each individual bit in register `sip` may be writable or may be read-only. When bit _i_ in `sip` is writable, a pending interrupt _i_ can be cleared by writing 0 to this bit. If interrupt _i_ can become pending but bit _i_ in `sip` is read-only, the implementation must provide some other mechanism for clearing the pending interrupt (which may involve a call to the execution environment). A bit in `sie` must be writable if the corresponding interrupt can ever become pending. Bits of `sie` that are not writable are read-only zero. The standard portions (bits 15:0) of registers `sip` and `sie` are formatted as shown in Figures link:#sipreg-standard[[sipreg-standard]] and link:#siereg-standard[[siereg-standard]] respectively. ScFcFcc & & & & & & + & & & & & & + & 1 & 3 & 1 & 3 & 1 & 1 + ScFcFcc & & & & & & + & & & & & & + & 1 & 3 & 1 & 3 & 1 & 1 + Bits `sip`.SEIP and `sie`.SEIE are the interrupt-pending and interrupt-enable bits for supervisor-level external interrupts. If implemented, SEIP is read-only in `sip`, and is set and cleared by the execution environment, typically through a platform-specific interrupt controller. Bits `sip`.STIP and `sie`.STIE are the interrupt-pending and interrupt-enable bits for supervisor-level timer interrupts. If implemented, STIP is read-only in `sip`, and is set and cleared by the execution environment. Bits `sip`.SSIP and `sie`.SSIE are the interrupt-pending and interrupt-enable bits for supervisor-level software interrupts. If implemented, SSIP is writable in `sip` and may also be set to 1 by a platform-specific interrupt controller. Interprocessor interrupts are sent to other harts by implementation-specific means, which will ultimately cause the SSIP bit to be set in the recipient hart’s `sip` register. Each standard interrupt type (SEI, STI, or SSI) may not be implemented, in which case the corresponding interrupt-pending and interrupt-enable bits are read-only zeros. All bits in `sip` and `sie` are  fields. The implemented interrupts may be found by writing one to every bit location in `sie`, then reading back to see which bit positions hold a one. The `sip` and `sie` registers are subsets of the `mip` and ` mie` registers. Reading any implemented field, or writing any writable field, of `sip`/`sie` effects a read or write of the homonymous field of `mip`/`mie`. Bits 3, 7, and 11 of `sip` and `sie` correspond to the machine-mode software, timer, and external interrupts, respectively. Since most platforms will choose not to make these interrupts delegatable from M-mode to S-mode, they are shown as 0 in Figures <> and <>. Multiple simultaneous interrupts destined for supervisor mode are handled in the following decreasing priority order: SEI, SSI, STI. ==== Supervisor Timers and Performance Counters Supervisor software uses the same hardware performance monitoring facility as user-mode software, including the `time`, `cycle`, and `instret` CSRs. The implementation should provide a mechanism to modify the counter values. The implementation must provide a facility for scheduling timer interrupts in terms of the real-time counter, `time`. ==== Counter-Enable Register (`scounteren`) cccMcccccc & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & + & 1 & 1 & 23 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 + The counter-enable register `scounteren` is a 32-bit register that controls the availability of the hardware performance monitoring counters to U-mode. When the CY, TM, IR, or HPM_n_ bit in the `scounteren` register is clear, attempts to read the `cycle`, `time`, `instret`, or `hpmcountern` register while executing in U-mode will cause an illegal instruction exception. When one of these bits is set, access to the corresponding register is permitted. `scounteren` must be implemented. However, any of the bits may be read-only zero, indicating reads to the corresponding counter will cause an exception when executing in U-mode. Hence, they are effectively  fields. The setting of a bit in `mcounteren` does not affect whether the corresponding bit in `scounteren` is writable. However, U-mode may only access a counter if the corresponding bits in ` scounteren` and `mcounteren` are both set. ==== Supervisor Scratch Register (`sscratch`) The `sscratch` register is an SXLEN-bit read/write register, dedicated for use by the supervisor. Typically, `sscratch` is used to hold a pointer to the hart-local supervisor context while the hart is executing user code. At the beginning of a trap handler, ` sscratch` is swapped with a user register to provide an initial working register. @J + + SXLEN + ==== Supervisor Exception Program Counter (`sepc`) `sepc` is an SXLEN-bit read/write register formatted as shown in Figure link:#epcreg[[epcreg]]. The low bit of `sepc` (`sepc[0]`) is always zero. On implementations that support only IALIGN=32, the two low bits (`sepc[1:0]`) are always zero. If an implementation allows IALIGN to be either 16 or 32 (by changing CSR `misa`, for example), then, whenever IALIGN=32, bit `sepc[1]` is masked on reads so that it appears to be 0. This masking occurs also for the implicit read by the SRET instruction. Though masked, `sepc[1]` remains writable when IALIGN=32. `sepc` is a  register that must be able to hold all valid virtual addresses. It need not be capable of holding all possible invalid addresses. Prior to writing `sepc`, implementations may convert an invalid address into some other invalid address that `sepc` is capable of holding. When a trap is taken into S-mode, `sepc` is written with the virtual address of the instruction that was interrupted or that encountered the exception. Otherwise, `sepc` is never written by the implementation, though it may be explicitly written by software. @J + + SXLEN + [[sec:scause]] ==== Supervisor Cause Register (`scause`) The `scause` register is an SXLEN-bit read-write register formatted as shown in Figure link:#scausereg[[scausereg]]. When a trap is taken into S-mode, ` scause` is written with a code indicating the event that caused the trap. Otherwise, `scause` is never written by the implementation, though it may be explicitly written by software. The Interrupt bit in the `scause` register is set if the trap was caused by an interrupt. The Exception Code field contains a code identifying the last exception or interrupt. Table <> lists the possible exception codes for the current supervisor ISAs. The Exception Code is a  field. It is required to hold the values 0–31 (i.e., bits 4–0 must be implemented), but otherwise it is only guaranteed to hold supported exception codes. c@U & + & + & SXLEN-1 + [cols=">,>,<,<",options="header",] |=== |Interrupt |Exception Code |Description | |1 |0 |_Reserved_ | |1 |1 |Supervisor software interrupt | |1 |2–4 |_Reserved_ | |1 |5 |Supervisor timer interrupt | |1 |6–8 |_Reserved_ | |1 |9 |Supervisor external interrupt | |1 |10–15 |_Reserved_ | |1 |latexmath:[$\ge$]16 |_Designated for platform use_ | |0 |0 |Instruction address misaligned | |0 |1 |Instruction access fault | |0 |2 |Illegal instruction | |0 |3 |Breakpoint | |0 |4 |Load address misaligned | |0 |5 |Load access fault | |0 |6 |Store/AMO address misaligned | |0 |7 |Store/AMO access fault | |0 |8 |Environment call from U-mode | |0 |9 |Environment call from S-mode | |0 |10–11 |_Reserved_ | |0 |12 |Instruction page fault | |0 |13 |Load page fault | |0 |14 |_Reserved_ | |0 |15 |Store/AMO page fault | |0 |16–23 |_Reserved_ | |0 |24–31 |_Designated for custom use_ | |0 |32–47 |_Reserved_ | |0 |48–63 |_Designated for custom use_ | |0 |latexmath:[$\ge$]64 |_Reserved_ | |=== ==== Supervisor Trap Value (`stval`) Register The `stval` register is an SXLEN-bit read-write register formatted as shown in Figure link:#stvalreg[[stvalreg]]. When a trap is taken into S-mode, `stval` is written with exception-specific information to assist software in handling the trap. Otherwise, `stval` is never written by the implementation, though it may be explicitly written by software. The hardware platform will specify which exceptions must set `stval` informatively and which may unconditionally set it to zero. If `stval` is written with a nonzero value when a breakpoint, address-misaligned, access-fault, or page-fault exception occurs on an instruction fetch, load, or store, then `stval` will contain the faulting virtual address. @J + + SXLEN + If `stval` is written with a nonzero value when a misaligned load or store causes an access-fault or page-fault exception, then `stval` will contain the virtual address of the portion of the access that caused the fault. If `stval` is written with a nonzero value when an instruction access-fault or page-fault exception occurs on a system with variable-length instructions, then `stval` will contain the virtual address of the portion of the instruction that caused the fault, while `sepc` will point to the beginning of the instruction. The `stval` register can optionally also be used to return the faulting instruction bits on an illegal instruction exception (`sepc` points to the faulting instruction in memory). If `stval` is written with a nonzero value when an illegal-instruction exception occurs, then `stval` will contain the shortest of: the actual faulting instruction the first ILEN bits of the faulting instruction the first SXLEN bits of the faulting instruction The value loaded into `stval` on an illegal-instruction exception is right-justified and all unused upper bits are cleared to zero. For other traps, `stval` is set to zero, but a future standard may redefine `stval`’s setting for other traps. `stval` is a  register that must be able to hold all valid virtual addresses and the value 0. It need not be capable of holding all possible invalid addresses. Prior to writing `stval`, implementations may convert an invalid address into some other invalid address that `stval` is capable of holding. If the feature to return the faulting instruction bits is implemented, ` stval` must also be able to hold all values less than latexmath:[$2^N$], where latexmath:[$N$] is the smaller of SXLEN and ILEN. ==== Supervisor Environment Configuration Register (`senvcfg`) The `senvcfg` CSR is an SXLEN-bit read/write register, formatted as shown in Figure #fig:senvcfg[[fig:senvcfg]], that controls certain characteristics of the U-mode execution environment. @Kcc@W@Wc & & & & & + & & & & & + SXLEN-8 & 1 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 + If bit FIOM (Fence of I/O implies Memory) is set to one in `senvcfg`, FENCE instructions executed in U-mode are modified so the requirement to order accesses to device I/O implies also the requirement to order main memory accesses. Table #tab:senvcfg-FIOM[1.1] details the modified interpretation of FENCE instruction bits PI, PO, SI, and SO in U-mode when FIOM=1. Similarly, for U-mode when FIOM=1, if an atomic instruction that accesses a region ordered as device I/O has its _aq_ and/or _rl_ bit set, then that instruction is ordered as though it accesses both device I/O and memory. If `satp`.MODE is read-only zero (always Bare), the implementation may make FIOM read-only zero. [[tab:senvcfg-FIOM]] . Modified interpretation of FENCE predecessor and successor sets in U-mode when FIOM=1. [cols="^,<",options="header",] |=== |Instruction bit |Meaning when set |PI |Predecessor device input and memory reads (PR implied) |PO |Predecessor device output and memory writes (PW implied) |SI |Successor device input and memory reads (SR implied) |SO |Successor device output and memory writes (SW implied) |=== Bit FIOM exists for a specific circumstance when an I/O device is being emulated for U-mode and both of the following are true: (a) the emulated device has a memory buffer that should be I/O space but is actually mapped to main memory via address translation, and (b) multiple physical harts are involved in accessing this emulated device from U-mode. A hypervisor running in S-mode without the benefit of the hypervisor extension of Chapter link:#hypervisor[[hypervisor]] may need to emulate a device for U-mode if paravirtualization cannot be employed. If the same hypervisor provides a virtual machine (VM) with multiple virtual harts, mapped one-to-one to real harts, then multiple harts may concurrently access the emulated device, perhaps because: (a) the guest OS within the VM assigns device interrupt handling to one hart while the device is also accessed by a different hart outside of an interrupt handler, or (b) control of the device (or partial control) is being migrated from one hart to another, such as for interrupt load balancing within the VM. For such cases, guest software within the VM is expected to properly coordinate access to the (emulated) device across multiple harts using mutex locks and/or interprocessor interrupts as usual, which in part entails executing I/O fences. But those I/O fences may not be sufficient if some of the device ``I/O'' is actually main memory, unknown to the guest. Setting FIOM=1 modifies those fences (and all other I/O fences executed in U-mode) to include main memory, too. Software can always avoid the need to set FIOM by never using main memory to emulate a device memory buffer that should be I/O space. However, this choice usually requires trapping all U-mode accesses to the emulated buffer, which might have a noticeable impact on performance. The alternative offered by FIOM is sufficiently inexpensive to implement that we consider it worth supporting even if only rarely enabled. The definition of the CBZE field will be furnished by the forthcoming Zicboz extension. Its allocation within `senvcfg` may change prior to the ratification of that extension. The definitions of the CBCFE and CBIE fields will be furnished by the forthcoming Zicbom extension. Their allocations within `senvcfg` may change prior to the ratification of that extension. [[sec:satp]] ==== Supervisor Address Translation and Protection (`satp`) Register The `satp` register is an SXLEN-bit read/write register, formatted as shown in Figure link:#rv32satp[[rv32satp]] for SXLEN=32 and Figure link:#rv64satp[[rv64satp]] for SXLEN=64, which controls supervisor-mode address translation and protection. This register holds the physical page number (PPN) of the root page table, i.e., its supervisor physical address divided by ; an address space identifier (ASID), which facilitates address-translation fences on a per-address-space basis; and the MODE field, which selects the current address-translation scheme. Further details on the access to this register are described in Section link:#virt-control[[virt-control]]. c@E@K & & + & & + & 9 & 22 + Storing a PPN in `satp`, rather than a physical address, supports a physical address space larger than for RV32. The `satp`.PPN field might not be capable of holding all physical page numbers. Some platform standards might place constraints on the values `satp`.PPN may assume, e.g., by requiring that all physical page numbers corresponding to main memory be representable. @S@T@U & & + & & + & 16 & 44 + We store the ASID and the page table base address in the same CSR to allow the pair to be changed atomically on a context switch. Swapping them non-atomically could pollute the old virtual address space with new translations, or vice-versa. This approach also slightly reduces the cost of a context switch. Table #tab:satp-mode[1.2] shows the encodings of the MODE field when SXLEN=32 and SXLEN=64. When MODE=Bare, supervisor virtual addresses are equal to supervisor physical addresses, and there is no additional memory protection beyond the physical memory protection scheme described in Section #sec:pmp[[sec:pmp]]. To select MODE=Bare, software must write zero to the remaining fields of `satp` (bits 30–0 when SXLEN=32, or bits 59–0 when SXLEN=64). Attempting to select MODE=Bare with a nonzero pattern in the remaining fields has an  effect on the value that the remaining fields assume and an  effect on address translation and protection behavior. When SXLEN=32, the `satp` encodings corresponding to MODE=Bare and ASID[8:7]=3 are designated for custom use, whereas the encodings corresponding to MODE=Bare and ASID[8:7]latexmath:[$\ne$]3 are reserved for future standard use. When SXLEN=64, all `satp` encodings corresponding to MODE=Bare are reserved for future standard use. Version 1.11 of this standard stated that the remaining fields in `satp` had no effect when MODE=Bare. Making these fields reserved facilitates future definition of additional translation and protection modes, particularly in RV32, for which all patterns of the existing MODE field have already been allocated. When SXLEN=32, the only other valid setting for MODE is Sv32, a paged virtual-memory scheme described in Section #sec:sv32[1.3]. When SXLEN=64, three paged virtual-memory schemes are defined: Sv39, Sv48, and Sv57, described in Sections #sec:sv39[1.4], #sec:sv48[1.5], and #sec:sv57[1.6], respectively. One additional scheme, Sv64, will be defined in a later version of this specification. The remaining MODE settings are reserved for future use and may define different interpretations of the other fields in `satp`. Implementations are not required to support all MODE settings, and if `satp` is written with an unsupported MODE, the entire write has no effect; no fields in `satp` are modified. [[tab:satp-mode]] .Encoding of `satp` MODE field. [cols="^,^,<",options="header",] |=== |SXLEN=32 | | |Value |Name |Description |0 |Bare |No translation or protection. |1 |Sv32 |Page-based 32-bit virtual addressing (see Section #sec:sv32[1.3]). |SXLEN=64 | | |Value |Name |Description |0 |Bare |No translation or protection. |1–7 |— |_Reserved for standard use_ |8 |Sv39 |Page-based 39-bit virtual addressing (see Section #sec:sv39[1.4]). |9 |Sv48 |Page-based 48-bit virtual addressing (see Section #sec:sv48[1.5]). |10 |Sv57 |Page-based 57-bit virtual addressing (see Section #sec:sv57[1.6]). |11 |_Sv64_ |_Reserved for page-based 64-bit virtual addressing._ |12–13 |— |_Reserved for standard use_ |14–15 |— |_Designated for custom use_ |=== The number of ASID bits is  and may be zero. The number of implemented ASID bits, termed _ASIDLEN_, may be determined by writing one to every bit position in the ASID field, then reading back the value in `satp` to see which bit positions in the ASID field hold a one. The least-significant bits of ASID are implemented first: that is, if ASIDLEN latexmath:[$>$] 0, ASID[ASIDLEN-1:0] is writable. The maximal value of ASIDLEN, termed ASIDMAX, is 9 for Sv32 or 16 for Sv39, Sv48, and Sv57. For many applications, the choice of page size has a substantial performance impact. A large page size increases TLB reach and loosens the associativity constraints on virtually indexed, physically tagged caches. At the same time, large pages exacerbate internal fragmentation, wasting physical memory and possibly cache capacity. After much deliberation, we have settled on a conventional page size of 4 KiB for both RV32 and RV64. We expect this decision to ease the porting of low-level runtime software and device drivers. The TLB reach problem is ameliorated by transparent superpage support in modern operating systems . Additionally, multi-level TLB hierarchies are quite inexpensive relative to the multi-level cache hierarchies whose address space they map. The `satp` register is considered _active_ when the effective privilege mode is S-mode or U-mode. Executions of the address-translation algorithm may only begin using a given value of `satp` when `satp` is active. Translations that began while `satp` was active are not required to complete or terminate when `satp` is no longer active, unless an SFENCE.VMA instruction matching the address and ASID is executed. The SFENCE.VMA instruction must be used to ensure that updates to the address-translation data structures are observed by subsequent implicit reads to those structures by a hart. Note that writing `satp` does not imply any ordering constraints between page-table updates and subsequent address translations, nor does it imply any invalidation of address-translation caches. If the new address space’s page tables have been modified, or if an ASID is reused, it may be necessary to execute an SFENCE.VMA instruction (see Section #sec:sfence.vma[1.2.1]) after, or in some cases before, writing `satp`. Not imposing upon implementations to flush address-translation caches upon `satp` writes reduces the cost of context switches, provided a sufficiently large ASID space. === Supervisor Instructions In addition to the SRET instruction defined in Section <>, one new supervisor-level instruction is provided. [[sec:sfence.vma]] ==== Supervisor Memory-Management Fence Instruction O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + SFENCE.VMA & asid & vaddr & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + The supervisor memory-management fence instruction SFENCE.VMA is used to synchronize updates to in-memory memory-management data structures with current execution. Instruction execution causes implicit reads and writes to these data structures; however, these implicit references are ordinarily not ordered with respect to explicit loads and stores. Executing an SFENCE.VMA instruction guarantees that any previous stores already visible to the current RISC-V hart are ordered before certain implicit references by subsequent instructions in that hart to the memory-management data structures. The specific set of operations ordered by SFENCE.VMA is determined by _rs1_ and _rs2_, as described below. SFENCE.VMA is also used to invalidate entries in the address-translation cache associated with a hart (see Section [1.3.2]). Further details on the behavior of this instruction are described in Section <> and Section <>. The SFENCE.VMA is used to flush any local hardware caches related to address translation. It is specified as a fence rather than a TLB flush to provide cleaner semantics with respect to which instructions are affected by the flush operation and to support a wider variety of dynamic caching structures and memory-management schemes. SFENCE.VMA is also used by higher privilege levels to synchronize page table writes and the address translation hardware. SFENCE.VMA orders only the local hart’s implicit references to the memory-management data structures. Consequently, other harts must be notified separately when the memory-management data structures have been modified. One approach is to use 1) a local data fence to ensure local writes are visible globally, then 2) an interprocessor interrupt to the other thread, then 3) a local SFENCE.VMA in the interrupt handler of the remote thread, and finally 4) signal back to originating thread that operation is complete. This is, of course, the RISC-V analog to a TLB shootdown. For the common case that the translation data structures have only been modified for a single address mapping (i.e., one page or superpage), _rs1_ can specify a virtual address within that mapping to effect a translation fence for that mapping only. Furthermore, for the common case that the translation data structures have only been modified for a single address-space identifier, _rs2_ can specify the address space. The behavior of SFENCE.VMA depends on _rs1_ and _rs2_ as follows: * If _rs1_=`x0` and _rs2_=`x0`, the fence orders all reads and writes made to any level of the page tables, for all address spaces. The fence also invalidates all address-translation cache entries, for all address spaces. * If _rs1_=`x0` and _rs2_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0`, the fence orders all reads and writes made to any level of the page tables, but only for the address space identified by integer register _rs2_. Accesses to _global_ mappings (see Section #sec:translation[1.3.1]) are not ordered. The fence also invalidates all address-translation cache entries matching the address space identified by integer register _rs2_, except for entries containing global mappings. * If _rs1_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0` and _rs2_=`x0`, the fence orders only reads and writes made to leaf page table entries corresponding to the virtual address in _rs1_, for all address spaces. The fence also invalidates all address-translation cache entries that contain leaf page table entries corresponding to the virtual address in _rs1_, for all address spaces. * If _rs1_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0` and _rs2_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0`, the fence orders only reads and writes made to leaf page table entries corresponding to the virtual address in _rs1_, for the address space identified by integer register _rs2_. Accesses to global mappings are not ordered. The fence also invalidates all address-translation cache entries that contain leaf page table entries corresponding to the virtual address in _rs1_ and that match the address space identified by integer register _rs2_, except for entries containing global mappings. If the value held in _rs1_ is not a valid virtual address, then the SFENCE.VMA instruction has no effect. No exception is raised in this case. When _rs2_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0`, bits SXLEN-1:ASIDMAX of the value held in _rs2_ are reserved for future standard use. Until their use is defined by a standard extension, they should be zeroed by software and ignored by current implementations. Furthermore, if ASIDLEN latexmath:[$<$] ASIDMAX, the implementation shall ignore bits ASIDMAX-1:ASIDLEN of the value held in _rs2_. It is always legal to over-fence, e.g., by fencing only based on a subset of the bits in _rs1_ and/or _rs2_, and/or by simply treating all SFENCE.VMA instructions as having _rs1_=`x0` and/or _rs2_=`x0`. For example, simpler implementations can ignore the virtual address in _rs1_ and the ASID value in _rs2_ and always perform a global fence. The choice not to raise an exception when an invalid virtual address is held in _rs1_ facilitates this type of simplification. An implicit read of the memory-management data structures may return any translation for an address that was valid at any time since the most recent SFENCE.VMA that subsumes that address. The ordering implied by SFENCE.VMA does not place implicit reads and writes to the memory-management data structures into the global memory order in a way that interacts cleanly with the standard RVWMO ordering rules. In particular, even though an SFENCE.VMA orders prior explicit accesses before subsequent implicit accesses, and those implicit accesses are ordered before their associated explicit accesses, SFENCE.VMA does not necessarily place prior explicit accesses before subsequent explicit accesses in the global memory order. These implicit loads also need not otherwise obey normal program order semantics with respect to prior loads or stores to the same address. A consequence of this specification is that an implementation may use any translation for an address that was valid at any time since the most recent SFENCE.VMA that subsumes that address. In particular, if a leaf PTE is modified but a subsuming SFENCE.VMA is not executed, either the old translation or the new translation will be used, but the choice is unpredictable. The behavior is otherwise well-defined. In a conventional TLB design, it is possible for multiple entries to match a single address if, for example, a page is upgraded to a superpage without first clearing the original non-leaf PTE’s valid bit and executing an SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0`. In this case, a similar remark applies: it is unpredictable whether the old non-leaf PTE or the new leaf PTE is used, but the behavior is otherwise well defined. Another consequence of this specification is that it is generally unsafe to update a PTE using a set of stores of a width less than the width of the PTE, as it is legal for the implementation to read the PTE at any time, including when only some of the partial stores have taken effect. This specification permits the caching of PTEs whose V (Valid) bit is clear. Operating systems must be written to cope with this possibility, but implementers are reminded that eagerly caching invalid PTEs will reduce performance by causing additional page faults. Implementations must only perform implicit reads of the translation data structures pointed to by the current contents of the `satp` register or a subsequent valid (V=1) translation data structure entry, and must only raise exceptions for implicit accesses that are generated as a result of instruction execution, not those that are performed speculatively. Changes to the `sstatus` fields SUM and MXR take effect immediately, without the need to execute an SFENCE.VMA instruction. Changing `satp`.MODE from Bare to other modes and vice versa also takes effect immediately, without the need to execute an SFENCE.VMA instruction. Likewise, changes to `satp`.ASID take effect immediately. The following common situations typically require executing an SFENCE.VMA instruction: * When software recycles an ASID (i.e., reassociates it with a different page table), it should _first_ change `satp` to point to the new page table using the recycled ASID, _then_ execute SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0` and _rs2_ set to the recycled ASID. Alternatively, software can execute the same SFENCE.VMA instruction while a different ASID is loaded into `satp`, provided the next time `satp` is loaded with the recycled ASID, it is simultaneously loaded with the new page table. * If the implementation does not provide ASIDs, or software chooses to always use ASID 0, then after every `satp` write, software should execute SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0`. In the common case that no global translations have been modified, _rs2_ should be set to a register other than `x0` but which contains the value zero, so that global translations are not flushed. * If software modifies a non-leaf PTE, it should execute SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0`. If any PTE along the traversal path had its G bit set, _rs2_ must be `x0`; otherwise, _rs2_ should be set to the ASID for which the translation is being modified. * If software modifies a leaf PTE, it should execute SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_ set to a virtual address within the page. If any PTE along the traversal path had its G bit set, _rs2_ must be `x0`; otherwise, _rs2_ should be set to the ASID for which the translation is being modified. * For the special cases of increasing the permissions on a leaf PTE and changing an invalid PTE to a valid leaf, software may choose to execute the SFENCE.VMA lazily. After modifying the PTE but before executing SFENCE.VMA, either the new or old permissions will be used. In the latter case, a page-fault exception might occur, at which point software should execute SFENCE.VMA in accordance with the previous bullet point. If a hart employs an address-translation cache, that cache must appear to be private to that hart. In particular, the meaning of an ASID is local to a hart; software may choose to use the same ASID to refer to different address spaces on different harts. A future extension could redefine ASIDs to be global across the SEE, enabling such options as shared translation caches and hardware support for broadcast TLB shootdown. However, as OSes have evolved to significantly reduce the scope of TLB shootdowns using novel ASID-management techniques, we expect the local-ASID scheme to remain attractive for its simplicity and possibly better scalability. For implementations that make `satp`.MODE read-only zero (always Bare), attempts to execute an SFENCE.VMA instruction might raise an illegal instruction exception. [[sec:sv32]] === Sv32: Page-Based 32-bit Virtual-Memory Systems When Sv32 is written to the MODE field in the `satp` register (see Section #sec:satp[1.1.11]), the supervisor operates in a 32-bit paged virtual-memory system. In this mode, supervisor and user virtual addresses are translated into supervisor physical addresses by traversing a radix-tree page table. Sv32 is supported when SXLEN=32 and is designed to include mechanisms sufficient for supporting modern Unix-based operating systems. The initial RISC-V paged virtual-memory architectures have been designed as straightforward implementations to support existing operating systems. We have architected page table layouts to support a hardware page-table walker. Software TLB refills are a performance bottleneck on high-performance systems, and are especially troublesome with decoupled specialized coprocessors. An implementation can choose to implement software TLB refills using a machine-mode trap handler as an extension to M-mode. Some ISAs architecturally expose _virtually indexed, physically tagged_ caches, in that accesses to the same physical address via different virtual addresses might not be coherent unless the virtual addresses lie within the same cache set. Implicitly, this specification does not permit such behavior to be architecturally exposed. [[sec:translation]] ==== Addressing and Memory Protection Sv32 implementations support a 32-bit virtual address space, divided into pages. An Sv32 virtual address is partitioned into a virtual page number (VPN) and page offset, as shown in Figure link:#sv32va[[sv32va]]. When Sv32 virtual memory mode is selected in the MODE field of the `satp` register, supervisor virtual addresses are translated into supervisor physical addresses via a two-level page table. The 20-bit VPN is translated into a 22-bit physical page number (PPN), while the 12-bit page offset is untranslated. The resulting supervisor-level physical addresses are then checked using any physical memory protection structures (Sections <>), before being directly converted to machine-level physical addresses. If necessary, supervisor-level physical addresses are zero-extended to the number of physical address bits found in the implementation. For example, consider an RV32 system supporting 34 bits of physical address. When the value of `satp`.MODE is Sv32, a 34-bit physical address is produced directly, and therefore no zero-extension is needed. When the value of `satp`.MODE is Bare, the 32-bit virtual address is translated (unmodified) into a 32-bit physical address, and then that physical address is zero-extended into a 34-bit machine-level physical address. @O@O@E & & + & & + & 10 & 12 + @E@O@E & & + & & + & 10 & 12 + @E@O@Fcccccccc & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & + & 10 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 + Sv32 page tables consist of latexmath:[$2^{10}$] page-table entries (PTEs), each of four bytes. A page table is exactly the size of a page and must always be aligned to a page boundary. The physical page number of the root page table is stored in the `satp` register. The PTE format for Sv32 is shown in Figures <>. The V bit indicates whether the PTE is valid; if it is 0, all other bits in the PTE are don’t-cares and may be used freely by software. The permission bits, R, W, and X, indicate whether the page is readable, writable, and executable, respectively. When all three are zero, the PTE is a pointer to the next level of the page table; otherwise, it is a leaf PTE. Writable pages must also be marked readable; the contrary combinations are reserved for future use. Table link:#pteperm[[pteperm]] summarizes the encoding of the permission bits. [cols="^,^,^,<",options="header",] |=== |X |W |R |Meaning |0 |0 |0 |Pointer to next level of page table. |0 |0 |1 |Read-only page. |0 |1 |0 |_Reserved for future use._ |0 |1 |1 |Read-write page. |1 |0 |0 |Execute-only page. |1 |0 |1 |Read-execute page. |1 |1 |0 |_Reserved for future use._ |1 |1 |1 |Read-write-execute page. |=== Attempting to fetch an instruction from a page that does not have execute permissions raises a fetch page-fault exception. Attempting to execute a load or load-reserved instruction whose effective address lies within a page without read permissions raises a load page-fault exception. Attempting to execute a store, store-conditional, or AMO instruction whose effective address lies within a page without write permissions raises a store page-fault exception. AMOs never raise load page-fault exceptions. Since any unreadable page is also unwritable, attempting to perform an AMO on an unreadable page always raises a store page-fault exception. The U bit indicates whether the page is accessible to user mode. U-mode software may only access the page when U=1. If the SUM bit in the `sstatus` register is set, supervisor mode software may also access pages with U=1. However, supervisor code normally operates with the SUM bit clear, in which case, supervisor code will fault on accesses to user-mode pages. Irrespective of SUM, the supervisor may not execute code on pages with U=1. An alternative PTE format would support different permissions for supervisor and user. We omitted this feature because it would be largely redundant with the SUM mechanism (see Section #sec:sum[1.1.1.2]) and would require more encoding space in the PTE. The G bit designates a _global_ mapping. Global mappings are those that exist in all address spaces. For non-leaf PTEs, the global setting implies that all mappings in the subsequent levels of the page table are global. Note that failing to mark a global mapping as global merely reduces performance, whereas marking a non-global mapping as global is a software bug that, after switching to an address space with a different non-global mapping for that address range, can unpredictably result in either mapping being used. Global mappings need not be stored redundantly in address-translation caches for multiple ASIDs. Additionally, they need not be flushed from local address-translation caches when an SFENCE.VMA instruction is executed with _rs2_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0`. The RSW field is reserved for use by supervisor software; the implementation shall ignore this field. Each leaf PTE contains an accessed (A) and dirty (D) bit. The A bit indicates the virtual page has been read, written, or fetched from since the last time the A bit was cleared. The D bit indicates the virtual page has been written since the last time the D bit was cleared. Two schemes to manage the A and D bits are permitted: * When a virtual page is accessed and the A bit is clear, or is written and the D bit is clear, a page-fault exception is raised. * When a virtual page is accessed and the A bit is clear, or is written and the D bit is clear, the implementation sets the corresponding bit(s) in the PTE. The PTE update must be atomic with respect to other accesses to the PTE, and must atomically check that the PTE is valid and grants sufficient permissions. Updates of the A bit may be performed as a result of speculation, but updates to the D bit must be exact (i.e., not speculative), and observed in program order by the local hart. Furthermore, the PTE update must appear in the global memory order no later than the explicit memory access, or any subsequent explicit memory access to that virtual page by the local hart. The ordering on loads and stores provided by FENCE instructions and the acquire/release bits on atomic instructions also orders the PTE updates associated with those loads and stores as observed by remote harts. + The PTE update is not required to be atomic with respect to the explicit memory access that caused the update, and the sequence is interruptible. However, the hart must not perform the explicit memory access before the PTE update is globally visible. All harts in a system must employ the same PTE-update scheme as each other. Prior versions of this specification required PTE A bit updates to be exact, but allowing the A bit to be updated as a result of speculation simplifies the implementation of address translation prefetchers. System software typically uses the A bit as a page replacement policy hint, but does not require exactness for functional correctness. On the other hand, D bit updates are still required to be exact and performed in program order, as the D bit affects the functional correctness of page eviction. Implementations are of course still permitted to perform both A and D bit updates only in an exact manner. In both cases, requiring atomicity ensures that the PTE update will not be interrupted by other intervening writes to the page table, as such interruptions could lead to A/D bits being set on PTEs that have been reused for other purposes, on memory that has been reclaimed for other purposes, and so on. Simple implementations may instead generate page-fault exceptions. The A and D bits are never cleared by the implementation. If the supervisor software does not rely on accessed and/or dirty bits, e.g. if it does not swap memory pages to secondary storage or if the pages are being used to map I/O space, it should always set them to 1 in the PTE to improve performance. Any level of PTE may be a leaf PTE, so in addition to 4 KiB pages, Sv32 supports 4 MiB _megapages_. A megapage must be virtually and physically aligned to a 4 MiB boundary; a page-fault exception is raised if the physical address is insufficiently aligned. For non-leaf PTEs, the D, A, and U bits are reserved for future standard use. Until their use is defined by a standard extension, they must be cleared by software for forward compatibility. For implementations with both page-based virtual memory and the ``A'' standard extension, the LR/SC reservation set must lie completely within a single base physical page (i.e., a naturally aligned region 4KiB physical-memory region). [[sv32algorithm]] ==== Virtual Address Translation Process A virtual address latexmath:[$va$] is translated into a physical address latexmath:[$pa$] as follows: . Let latexmath:[$a$] be latexmath:[${\tt satp}.ppn \times \textrm{PAGESIZE}$], and let latexmath:[$i=\textrm{LEVELS} - 1$]. (For Sv32, PAGESIZE=latexmath:[$2^{12}$] and LEVELS=2.) The `satp` register must be _active_, i.e., the effective privilege mode must be S-mode or U-mode. . Let latexmath:[$pte$] be the value of the PTE at address latexmath:[$a+va.vpn[i]\times \textrm{PTESIZE}$]. (For Sv32, PTESIZE=4.) If accessing latexmath:[$pte$] violates a PMA or PMP check, raise an access-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. . If latexmath:[$pte.v=0$], or if latexmath:[$pte.r=0$] and latexmath:[$pte.w=1$], or if any bits or encodings that are reserved for future standard use are set within latexmath:[$pte$], stop and raise a page-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. . Otherwise, the PTE is valid. If latexmath:[$pte.r=1$] or latexmath:[$pte.x=1$], go to step 5. Otherwise, this PTE is a pointer to the next level of the page table. Let latexmath:[$i=i-1$]. If latexmath:[$i<0$], stop and raise a page-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. Otherwise, let latexmath:[$a=pte.ppn \times \textrm{PAGESIZE}$] and go to step 2. . A leaf PTE has been found. Determine if the requested memory access is allowed by the latexmath:[$pte.r$], latexmath:[$pte.w$], latexmath:[$pte.x$], and latexmath:[$pte.u$] bits, given the current privilege mode and the value of the SUM and MXR fields of the `mstatus` register. If not, stop and raise a page-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. . If latexmath:[$i>0$] and latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i-1:0]\neq 0$], this is a misaligned superpage; stop and raise a page-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. . If latexmath:[$pte.a=0$], or if the original memory access is a store and latexmath:[$pte.d=0$], either raise a page-fault exception corresponding to the original access type, or: * If a store to latexmath:[$pte$] would violate a PMA or PMP check, raise an access-fault exception corresponding to the original access type. * Perform the following steps atomically: ** Compare latexmath:[$pte$] to the value of the PTE at address latexmath:[$a+va.vpn[i]\times \textrm{PTESIZE}$]. ** If the values match, set latexmath:[$pte.a$] to 1 and, if the original memory access is a store, also set latexmath:[$pte.d$] to 1. ** If the comparison fails, return to step 2 . The translation is successful. The translated physical address is given as follows: * latexmath:[$\textit{pa.pgoff} = \textit{va.pgoff}$]. * If latexmath:[$i>0$], then this is a superpage translation and latexmath:[$pa.ppn[i-1:0]=va.vpn[i-1:0]$]. * latexmath:[$pa.ppn[\textrm{LEVELS} - 1:i] = pte.ppn[\textrm{LEVELS} - 1:i]$]. All implicit accesses to the address-translation data structures in this algorithm are performed using width PTESIZE. This implies, for example, that an Sv48 implementation may not use two separate 4B reads to non-atomically access a single 8B PTE, and that A/D bit updates performed by the implementation are treated as atomically updating the entire PTE, rather than just the A and/or D bit alone (even though the PTE value does not otherwise change). The results of implicit address-translation reads in step 2 may be held in a read-only, incoherent _address-translation cache_ but not shared with other harts. The address-translation cache may hold an arbitrary number of entries, including an arbitrary number of entries for the same address and ASID. Entries in the address-translation cache may then satisfy subsequent step 2 reads if the ASID associated with the entry matches the ASID loaded in step 0 or if the entry is associated with a _global_ mapping. To ensure that implicit reads observe writes to the same memory locations, an SFENCE.VMA instruction must be executed after the writes to flush the relevant cached translations. The address-translation cache cannot be used in step 7; accessed and dirty bits may only be updated in memory directly. It is permitted for multiple address-translation cache entries to co-exist for the same address. This represents the fact that in a conventional TLB hierarchy, it is possible for multiple entries to match a single address if, for example, a page is upgraded to a superpage without first clearing the original non-leaf PTE’s valid bit and executing an SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0`, or if multiple TLBs exist in parallel at a given level of the hierarchy. In this case, just as if an SFENCE.VMA is not executed between a write to the memory-management tables and subsequent implicit read of the same address: it is unpredictable whether the old non-leaf PTE or the new leaf PTE is used, but the behavior is otherwise well defined. Implementations may also execute the address-translation algorithm speculatively at any time, for any virtual address, as long as `satp` is active (as defined in Section #sec:satp[1.1.11]). Such speculative executions have the effect of pre-populating the address-translation cache. Speculative executions of the address-translation algorithm behave as non-speculative executions of the algorithm do, except that they must not set the dirty bit for a PTE, they must not trigger an exception, and they must not create address-translation cache entries if those entries would have been invalidated by any SFENCE.VMA instruction executed by the hart since the speculative execution of the algorithm began. For instance, it is illegal for both non-speculative and speculative executions of the translation algorithm to begin, read the level 2 page table, pause while the hart executes an SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=_rs2_=`x0`, then resume using the now-stale level 2 PTE, as subsequent implicit reads could populate the address-translation cache with stale PTEs. In many implementations, an SFENCE.VMA instruction with _rs1_=`x0` will therefore either terminate all previously-launched speculative executions of the address-translation algorithm (for the specified ASID, if applicable), or simply wait for them to complete (in which case any address-translation cache entries created will be invalidated by the SFENCE.VMA as appropriate). Likewise, an SFENCE.VMA instruction with _rs1_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0` generally must either ensure that previously-launched speculative executions of the address-translation algorithm (for the specified ASID, if applicable) are prevented from creating new address-translation cache entries mapping leaf PTEs, or wait for them to complete. A consequence of implementations being permitted to read the translation data structures arbitrarily early and speculatively is that at any time, all page table entries reachable by executing the algorithm may be loaded into the address-translation cache. Although it would be uncommon to place page tables in non-idempotent memory, there is no explicit prohibition against doing so. Since the algorithm may only touch page tables reachable from the root page table indicated in ` satp`, the range of addresses that an implementation’s page table walker will touch is fully under supervisor control. The algorithm does not admit the possibility of ignoring high-order PPN bits for implementations with narrower physical addresses. [[sec:sv39]] === Sv39: Page-Based 39-bit Virtual-Memory System This section describes a simple paged virtual-memory system for SXLEN=64, which supports 39-bit virtual address spaces. The design of Sv39 follows the overall scheme of Sv32, and this section details only the differences between the schemes. We specified multiple virtual memory systems for RV64 to relieve the tension between providing a large address space and minimizing address-translation cost. For many systems, of virtual-address space is ample, and so Sv39 suffices. Sv48 increases the virtual address space to , but increases the physical memory capacity dedicated to page tables, the latency of page-table traversals, and the size of hardware structures that store virtual addresses. Sv57 increases the virtual address space, page table capacity requirement, and translation latency even further. [[addressing-and-memory-protection]] ==== Addressing and Memory Protection Sv39 implementations support a 39-bit virtual address space, divided into pages. An Sv39 address is partitioned as shown in Figure link:#sv39va[[sv39va]]. Instruction fetch addresses and load and store effective addresses, which are 64 bits, must have bits 63–39 all equal to bit 38, or else a page-fault exception will occur. The 27-bit VPN is translated into a 44-bit PPN via a three-level page table, while the 12-bit page offset is untranslated. When mapping between narrower and wider addresses, RISC-V zero-extends a narrower physical address to a wider size. The mapping between 64-bit virtual addresses and the 39-bit usable address space of Sv39 is not based on zero-extension but instead follows an entrenched convention that allows an OS to use one or a few of the most-significant bits of a full-size (64-bit) virtual address to quickly distinguish user and supervisor address regions. @O@O@O@O & & & + & & & + & 9 & 9 & 12 + @T@O@O@O & & & + & & & + & 9 & 9 & 12 + cF@Y@Y@Y@Y@Fcccccccc & & & & & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & & & & & + & 2 & 7 & 26 & 9 & 9 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 + Sv39 page tables contain latexmath:[$2^9$] page table entries (PTEs), eight bytes each. A page table is exactly the size of a page and must always be aligned to a page boundary. The physical page number of the root page table is stored in the `satp` register’s PPN field. The PTE format for Sv39 is shown in Figure link:#sv39pte[[sv39pte]]. Bits 9–0 have the same meaning as for Sv32. Bit 63 is reserved for use by the Svnapot extension in Chapter link:#svnapot[2]. If Svnapot is not implemented, bit 63 remains reserved and must be zeroed by software for forward compatibility, or else a page-fault exception is raised. Bits 62–61 are reserved for use by the Svpbmt extension in Chapter link:#svpbmt[3]. If Svpbmt is not implemented, bits 62–61 remain reserved and must be zeroed by software for forward compatibility, or else a page-fault exception is raised. Bits 60–54 are reserved for future standard use and, until their use is defined by some standard extension, must be zeroed by software for forward compatibility. If any of these bits are set, a page-fault exception is raised. We reserved several PTE bits for a possible extension that improves support for sparse address spaces by allowing page-table levels to be skipped, reducing memory usage and TLB refill latency. These reserved bits may also be used to facilitate research experimentation. The cost is reducing the physical address space, but is presently ample. When it no longer suffices, the reserved bits that remain unallocated could be used to expand the physical address space. Any level of PTE may be a leaf PTE, so in addition to pages, Sv39 supports _megapages_ and _gigapages_, each of which must be virtually and physically aligned to a boundary equal to its size. A page-fault exception is raised if the physical address is insufficiently aligned. The algorithm for virtual-to-physical address translation is the same as in Section link:#sv32algorithm[1.3.2], except LEVELS equals 3 and PTESIZE equals 8. [[sec:sv48]] === Sv48: Page-Based 48-bit Virtual-Memory System This section describes a simple paged virtual-memory system for SXLEN=64, which supports 48-bit virtual address spaces. Sv48 is intended for systems for which a 39-bit virtual address space is insufficient. It closely follows the design of Sv39, simply adding an additional level of page table, and so this chapter only details the differences between the two schemes. Implementations that support Sv48 must also support Sv39. Systems that support Sv48 can also support Sv39 at essentially no cost, and so should do so to maintain compatibility with supervisor software that assumes Sv39. [[addressing-and-memory-protection-1]] ==== Addressing and Memory Protection Sv48 implementations support a 48-bit virtual address space, divided into pages. An Sv48 address is partitioned as shown in Figure link:#sv48va[[sv48va]]. Instruction fetch addresses and load and store effective addresses, which are 64 bits, must have bits 63–48 all equal to bit 47, or else a page-fault exception will occur. The 36-bit VPN is translated into a 44-bit PPN via a four-level page table, while the 12-bit page offset is untranslated. @O@O@O@O@O & & & & + & & & & + & 9 & 9 & 9 & 12 + @E@O@O@O@O & & & & + & & & & + & 9 & 9 & 9 & 12 + cF@F@F@F@F@F@Fcccccccc & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & + & 2 & 7 & 17 & 9 & 9 & 9 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 + The PTE format for Sv48 is shown in Figure link:#sv48pte[[sv48pte]]. Bits 63–54 and 9–0 have the same meaning as for Sv39. Any level of PTE may be a leaf PTE, so in addition to pages, Sv48 supports _megapages_, _gigapages_, and _terapages_, each of which must be virtually and physically aligned to a boundary equal to its size. A page-fault exception is raised if the physical address is insufficiently aligned. The algorithm for virtual-to-physical address translation is the same as in Section link:#sv32algorithm[1.3.2], except LEVELS equals 4 and PTESIZE equals 8. [[sec:sv57]] === Sv57: Page-Based 57-bit Virtual-Memory System This section describes a simple paged virtual-memory system designed for RV64 systems, which supports 57-bit virtual address spaces. Sv57 is intended for systems for which a 48-bit virtual address space is insufficient. It closely follows the design of Sv48, simply adding an additional level of page table, and so this chapter only details the differences between the two schemes. Implementations that support Sv57 must also support Sv48. Systems that support Sv57 can also support Sv48 at essentially no cost, and so should do so to maintain compatibility with supervisor software that assumes Sv48. [[addressing-and-memory-protection-2]] ==== Addressing and Memory Protection Sv57 implementations support a 57-bit virtual address space, divided into pages. An Sv57 address is partitioned as shown in Figure link:#sv57va[[sv57va]]. Instruction fetch addresses and load and store effective addresses, which are 64 bits, must have bits 63–57 all equal to bit 56, or else a page-fault exception will occur. The 45-bit VPN is translated into a 44-bit PPN via a five-level page table, while the 12-bit page offset is untranslated. @S@S@S@S@S@S & & & & & + & & & & & + & 9 & 9 & 9 & 9 & 12 + @R@S@S@S@S@S & & & & & + & & & & & + & 9 & 9 & 9 & 9 & 12 + c@F@Y@T@Wcccccccc & & & & & & & & & & & & + & & & & & & & & & & & & + & 2 & 7 & 44 & 2 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 + @F@F@F@F@F & & & & + & & & & + & 9 & 9 & 9 & 9 + The PTE format for Sv57 is shown in Figure link:#sv57pte[[sv57pte]]. Bits 63–54 and 9–0 have the same meaning as for Sv39. Any level of PTE may be a leaf PTE, so in addition to pages, Sv57 supports _megapages_, _gigapages_, _terapages_, and _petapages_, each of which must be virtually and physically aligned to a boundary equal to its size. A page-fault exception is raised if the physical address is insufficiently aligned. The algorithm for virtual-to-physical address translation is the same as in Section link:#sv32algorithm[1.3.2], except LEVELS equals 5 and PTESIZE equals 8. [[svnapot]] == ``Svnapot'' Standard Extension for NAPOT Translation Contiguity, Version 1.0 In Sv39, Sv48, and Sv57, when a PTE has N=1, the PTE represents a translation that is part of a range of contiguous virtual-to-physical translations with the same values for PTE bits 5–0. Such ranges must be of a naturally aligned power-of-2 (NAPOT) granularity larger than the base page size. The Svnapot extension depends on Sv39. [cols="^,^,<,^",options="header",] |=== |i |latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i]$] |Description |latexmath:[$pte.napot\_bits$] |0 |`x xxxx xxx1` |_Reserved_ |latexmath:[$-$] |0 |`x xxxx xx1x` |_Reserved_ |latexmath:[$-$] |0 |`x xxxx x1xx` |_Reserved_ |latexmath:[$-$] |0 |`x xxxx 1000` |64 KiB contiguous region |4 |0 |`x xxxx 0xxx` |_Reserved_ |latexmath:[$-$] |latexmath:[$\geq 1$] |`x xxxx xxxx` |_Reserved_ |latexmath:[$-$] |=== NAPOT PTEs behave identically to non-NAPOT PTEs within the address-translation algorithm in Section link:#sv32algorithm[1.3.2], except that: * If the encoding in latexmath:[$pte$] is valid according to Table link:#ptenapot[[ptenapot]], then instead of returning the original value of latexmath:[$pte$], implicit reads of a NAPOT PTE return a copy of latexmath:[$pte$] in which latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i][pte.napot\_bits-1:0]$] is replaced by latexmath:[$vpn[i][pte.napot\_bits-1:0]$]. If the encoding in latexmath:[$pte$] is reserved according to Table <>, then a page-fault exception must be raised. * Implicit reads of NAPOT page table entries may create address-translation cache entries mapping latexmath:[$a + j \times \textrm{PTESIZE}$] to a copy of latexmath:[$pte$] in which latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i][pte.napot\_bits-1:0]$] is replaced by latexmath:[$vpn[i][pte.napot\_bits-1:0]$], for any or all latexmath:[$j$] such that latexmath:[${j >> napot\_bits}={vpn[i] >> napot\_bits}$], all for the address space identified in _satp_ as loaded by step 1. The motivation for a NAPOT PTE is that it can be cached in a TLB as one or more entries representing the contiguous region as if it were a single (large) page covered by a single translation. This compaction can help relieve TLB pressure in some scenarios. The encoding is designed to fit within the pre-existing Sv39, Sv48, and Sv57 PTE formats so as not to disrupt existing implementations or designs that choose not to implement the scheme. It is also designed so as not to complicate the definition of the address-translation algorithm. The address translation cache abstraction captures the behavior that would result from the creation of a single TLB entry covering the entire NAPOT region. It is also designed to be consistent with implementations that support NAPOT PTEs by splitting the NAPOT region into TLB entries covering any smaller power-of-two region sizes. For example, a 64 KiB NAPOT PTE might trigger the creation of 16 standard 4 KiB TLB entries, all with contents generated from the NAPOT PTE (even if the PTEs for the other 4 KiB regions have different contents). In typical usage scenarios, NAPOT PTEs in the same region will have the same attributes, same PPNs, and same values for bits 5–0. RSW remains reserved for supervisor software control. It is the responsibility of the OS and/or hypervisor to configure the page tables in such a way that there are no inconsistencies between NAPOT PTEs and other NAPOT or non-NAPOT PTEs that overlap the same address range. If an update needs to be made, the OS generally should first mark all of the PTEs invalid, then issue SFENCE.VMA instruction(s) covering all 4 KiB regions within the range (either via a single SFENCE.VMA with _rs1_=`x0`, or with multiple SFENCE.VMA instructions with _rs1_latexmath:[$\neq$]`x0`), then update the PTE(s), as described in Section #sec:sfence.vma[1.2.1], unless any inconsistencies are known to be benign. If any inconsistencies do exist, then the effect is the same as when SFENCE.VMA is used incorrectly: one of the translations will be chosen, but the choice is unpredictable. If an implementation chooses to use a NAPOT PTE (or cached version thereof), it might not consult the PTE directly specified by the algorithm in Section link:#sv32algorithm[1.3.2] at all. Therefore, the D and A bits may not be identical across all mappings of the same address range even in typical use cases The operating system must query all NAPOT aliases of a page to determine whether that page has been accessed and/or is dirty. If the OS manually sets the A and/or D bits for a page, it is recommended that the OS also set the A and/or D bits for other NAPOT aliases as appropriate in order to avoid unnecessary traps. Just as with normal PTEs, TLBs are permitted to cache NAPOT PTEs whose V (Valid) bit is clear. Depending on need, the NAPOT scheme may be extended to other intermediate page sizes and/or to other levels of the page table in the future. The encoding is designed to accommodate other NAPOT sizes should that need arise. For example: __ [cols="^,^,<,^",options="header",] |=== |i |latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i]$] |Description |latexmath:[$pte.napot\_bits$] |0 |`x xxxx xxx1` |8 KiB contiguous region |1 |0 |`x xxxx xx10` |16 KiB contiguous region |2 |0 |`x xxxx x100` |32 KiB contiguous region |3 |0 |`x xxxx 1000` |64 KiB contiguous region |4 |0 |`x xxx1 0000` |128 KiB contiguous region |5 |... |... |... |... |1 |`x xxxx xxx1` |4 MiB contiguous region |1 |1 |`x xxxx xx10` |8 MiB contiguous region |2 |... |... |... |... |=== In such a case, an implementation may or may not support all options. The discoverability mechanism for this extension would be extended to allow system software to determine which sizes are supported. Other sizes may remain deliberately excluded, so that PPN bits not being used to indicate a valid NAPOT region size (e.g., the least-significant bit of latexmath:[$pte.ppn[i]$]) may be repurposed for other uses in the future. However, in case finer-grained intermediate page size support proves not to be useful, we have chosen to standardize only 64 KiB support as a first step. [[svpbmt]] == ``Svpbmt'' Standard Extension for Page-Based Memory Types, Version 1.0 In Sv39, Sv48, and Sv57, bits 62–61 of a leaf page table entry indicate the use of page-based memory types that override the PMA(s) for the associated memory pages. The encoding for the PBMT bits is captured in Table link:#pbmt[[pbmt]]. The Svpbmt extension depends on Sv39. [cols="^,^,<",options="header",] |=== |Mode |Value |Requested Memory Attributes |PMA |0 |None |NC |1 |Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered (RVWMO), main memory |IO |2 |Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered (I/O ordering), I/O |latexmath:[$-$] |3 |_Reserved for future standard use_ |=== Future extensions may provide more and/or finer-grained control over which PMAs can be overridden. For non-leaf PTEs, bits 62–61 are reserved for future standard use. Until their use is defined by a standard extension, they must be cleared by software for forward compatibility, or else a page-fault exception is raised. For leaf PTEs, setting bits 62–-61 to the value 3 is reserved for future standard use. Until this value is defined by a standard extension, using this reserved value in a leaf PTE raises a page-fault exception. If the underlying physical memory attribute for a page is vacant, the PBMT settings do not override that. When PBMT settings override a main memory page into I/O or vice versa, memory accesses to such pages obey the memory ordering rules of the final effective attribute, as follows. If the underlying physical memory attribute for a page is I/O, and the page has PBMT=NC, then accesses to that page obey RVWMO. However, accesses to such pages are considered to be _both_ I/O and main memory accesses for the purposes of FENCE, _.aq_, and _.rl_. If the underlying physical memory attribute for a page is main memory, and the page has PBMT=IO, then accesses to that page obey strong channel 0 I/O ordering rules with respect to other accesses to physical main memory and to other accesses to pages with PBMT=IO. However, accesses to such pages are considered to be _both_ I/O and main memory accesses for the purposes of FENCE, _.aq_, and _.rl_. A device driver written to rely on I/O strong ordering rules will not operate correctly if the address range is mapped with PBMT=NC. As such, this configuration is discouraged. It will often still be useful to map physical I/O regions using PBMT=NC so that write combining and speculative accesses can be performed. Such optimizations will likely improve performance when applied with adequate care. When Svpbmt is used with non-zero PBMT encodings, it is possible for multiple virtual aliases of the same physical page to exist simultaneously with different memory attributes. It is also possible for a U-mode or S-mode mapping through a PTE with Svpbmt enabled to observe different memory attributes for a given region of physical memory than a concurrent access to the same page performed by M-mode or when MODE=Bare. In such cases, the behaviors dictated by the attributes (including coherence, which is otherwise unaffected) may be violated. Accessing the same location using different attributes that are both non-cacheable (e.g., NC and IO) does not cause loss of coherence, but might result in weaker memory ordering than the stricter attribute ordinarily guarantees. Executing a `fence iorw, iorw` instruction between such accesses suffices to prevent loss of memory ordering. Accessing the same location using different cacheability attributes may cause loss of coherence. Executing the following sequence between such accesses prevents both loss of coherence and loss of memory ordering: `fence iorw, iorw`, followed by `cbo.flush` to an address of that location, followed by a `fence iorw, iorw`. It follows that, if the same location might later be referenced using the original attributes, then this sequence must be repeated beforehand. In certain cases, a weaker sequence might suffice to prevent loss of coherence. These situations will be detailed following the forthcoming formalization of the interaction of the RVWMO memory model with the instructions in the Zicbom extension. When two-stage address translation is enabled within the H extension, the page-based memory types are also applied in two stages. First, if `hgatp`.MODE is not equal to zero, non-zero G-stage PTE PBMT bits override the attributes in the PMA to produce an intermediate set of attributes. Otherwise, the PMAs serve as the intermediate attributes. Second, if `vsatp`.MODE is not equal to zero, non-zero VS-stage PTE PBMT bits override the intermediate attributes to produce the final set of attributes used by accesses to the page in question. Otherwise, the intermediate attributes are used as the final set of attributes. [[svinval]] == ``Svinval'' Standard Extension for Fine-Grained Address-Translation Cache Invalidation, Version 1.0 The Svinval extension splits SFENCE.VMA, HFENCE.VVMA, and HFENCE.GVMA instructions into finer-grained invalidation and ordering operations that can be more efficiently batched or pipelined on certain classes of high-performance implementation. O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + SINVAL.VMA & asid & vaddr & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + The SINVAL.VMA instruction invalidates any address-translation cache entries that an SFENCE.VMA instruction with the same values of _rs1_ and _rs2_ would invalidate. However, unlike SFENCE.VMA, SINVAL.VMA instructions are only ordered with respect to SFENCE.VMA, SFENCE.W.INVAL, and SFENCE.INVAL.IR instructions as defined below. O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + SFENCE.W.INVAL & 0 & 0 & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + SFENCE.INVAL.IR & 1 & 0 & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + The SFENCE.W.INVAL instruction guarantees that any previous stores already visible to the current RISC-V hart are ordered before subsequent SINVAL.VMA instructions executed by the same hart. The SFENCE.INVAL.IR instruction guarantees that any previous SINVAL.VMA instructions executed by the current hart are ordered before subsequent implicit references by that hart to the memory-management data structures. When executed in order (but not necessarily consecutively) by a single hart, the sequence SFENCE.W.INVAL, SINVAL.VMA, and SFENCE.INVAL.IR has the same effect as a hypothetical SFENCE.VMA instruction in which: * the values of _rs1_ and _rs2_ for the SFENCE.VMA are the same as those used in the SINVAL.VMA, * reads and writes prior to the SFENCE.W.INVAL are considered to be those prior to the SFENCE.VMA, and * reads and writes following the SFENCE.INVAL.IR are considered to be those subsequent to the SFENCE.VMA. O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + HINVAL.VVMA & asid & vaddr & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + O@R@R@F@R@S + & & & & & + & & & & & + & 5 & 5 & 3 & 5 & 7 + HINVAL.GVMA & vmid & gaddr & PRIV & 0 & SYSTEM + If the hypervisor extension is implemented, the Svinval extension also provides two additional instructions: HINVAL.VVMA and HINVAL.GVMA. These have the same semantics as SINVAL.VMA, except that they combine with SFENCE.W.INVAL and SFENCE.INVAL.IR to replace HFENCE.VVMA and HFENCE.GVMA, respectively, instead of SFENCE.VMA. In addition, HINVAL.GVMA uses VMIDs instead of ASIDs. SINVAL.VMA, HINVAL.VVMA, and HINVAL.GVMA require the same permissions and raise the same exceptions as SFENCE.VMA, HFENCE.VVMA, and HFENCE.GVMA, respectively. In particular, an attempt to execute any of these instructions in U-mode always raises an illegal instruction exception, and an attempt to execute SINVAL.VMA or HINVAL.GVMA in S-mode or HS-mode when `mstatus`.TVM=1 also raises an illegal instruction exception. An attempt to execute HINVAL.VVMA or HINVAL.GVMA in VS-mode or VU-mode, or to execute SINVAL.VMA in VU-mode, raises a virtual instruction exception. When `hstatus`.VTVM=1, an attempt to execute SINVAL.VMA in VS-mode also raises a virtual instruction exception. SFENCE.W.INVAL and SFENCE.INVAL.IR instructions do not need to be trapped when `mstatus`.TVM=1 or when `hstatus`.VTVM=1, as they only have ordering effects but no visible side effects. Trapping of the SINVAL.VMA instruction is sufficient to enable emulation of the intended overall TLB maintenance functionality. In typical usage, software will invalidate a range of virtual addresses in the address-translation caches by executing an SFENCE.W.INVAL instruction, executing a series of SINVAL.VMA, HINVAL.VVMA, or HINVAL.GVMA instructions to the addresses (and optionally ASIDs or VMIDs) in question, and then executing an SFENCE.INVAL.IR instruction. High-performance implementations will be able to pipeline the address-translation cache invalidation operations, and will defer any pipeline stalls or other memory ordering enforcement until an SFENCE.W.INVAL, SFENCE.INVAL.IR, SFENCE.VMA, HFENCE.GVMA, or HFENCE.VVMA instruction is executed. Simpler implementations may implement SINVAL.VMA, HINVAL.VVMA, and HINVAL.GVMA identically to SFENCE.VMA, HFENCE.VVMA, and HFENCE.GVMA, respectively, while implementing SFENCE.W.INVAL and SFENCE.INVAL.IR instructions as no-ops.