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** ASID
* Debug
+==== Debug
+The Linux base platform requirements are -
+
+- Implement resethaltreq
+ * Rationale: Debugging immediately out of reset is a useful debug tool and
+ is required by item 5 in chapter 3. The resethaltreq mechanism provides a
+ standard way to do this.
+- Implement the program buffer
+ * Rationale: The program buffer is easier for most implementations than
+ abstract access.
+ * Rationale: Debuggers need to be able to insert ebreak instructions into
+ memory and make sure that the ebreak is visible to subsequent instruction
+ fetches. Abstract access has no support for fence.i (or similar
+ mechanisms).
+- abstractcs.relaxedpriv must be 0
+ * Rationale: Doing otherwise is a potential security problem.
+- abstractauto must be implemented
+ * Rationale: autoexecprogbuf allows faster instruction-stuffing
+ * Rationale: autoexecdata allows fast read/write of a region of memory
+- dcsr.mprven must be tied to 1
+ * Rationale: Emulating two-stage table walks and PMP checks and endianness
+ swapping is a heavy burden on the debugger.
+- In textra, sselect must support the value 0 and either value 1 or 2 (or
+both).
+ * Rationale: There must be some way to limit triggers to only match in a
+ particular user context and a way to ignore user context.
+- If textra.sselect=1 is supported, the number of implemented bits of svalue
+must be at least the number of implemented bits of scontext.
+ * Rationale: This allows matching on every possible scontext.
+- If textra.sselect=2 is supported, the number of implemented bits of svalue
+must be at least ASIDLEN.
+ * Rationale: This allows matching on every possible ASID.
+- In textra, mhselect must support the value 0. If the H extension is
+supported then mhselect must also support either values 1 and 5 or values 2
+and 6 (or all four).
+ * Rationale: There must be some way to limit triggers to only match in a
+ particular guest context and a way to ignore guest context.
+- If textra.mhselect=1,5 are supported and if H is the number of implemented
+bits of hcontext then, unless all bits of mhvalue are implemented, at least
+H-1 bits of mhvalue must be implemented.
+ * Rationale: This allows matching on every possible hcontext (up to the limit
+ of the field width). It is H-1 bits instead of H because mhselect[2]
+ provides one bit.
+- If textra.mhselect=2,6 are supported, the number of implemented bits of
+mhvalue must be at least VMIDLEN-1.
+ * Rationale: This allows matching on every possible VMID. It is VMIDLEN-1
+ instead of VMIDLEN because mhselect[2] provides one bit.
+- Implement at least four mcontrol6 triggers that can support matching on PC
+(select=0, execute=1, match=0) with timing=0 and full support for mode
+filtering (vs, vu, m, s, u) for all supported modes and support for textra as
+above.
+ * Rationale: The debugger needs breakpoints and 4 is a sufficient baseline.
+- Implement at least four mcontrol6 triggers that can support matching on load
+ and store addresses (select=0, match=0, and all combinations of load/store)
+ with timing=0 and full support for mode filtering (vs, vu, m, s, u) for all
+ supported modes and support for textra as above.
+ * Rationale: The debugger needs watchpoints and 4 is a sufficient baseline.
+- Implement at least one trigger capable of icount and support for textra as
+above.
+ * Rationale: Self-hosted single step needs this
+- Implement at least one trigger capable of etrigger and support for textra as
+above.
+ * Rationale: Debuggers need to be able to catch exceptions.
+- Implement at least one trigger capable of itrigger and support for textra as
+above.
+ * Rationale: Debuggers need to be able to catch interrupts.
+- The minimum trigger requirements must be met for action=0 and for action=1
+(possibly by the same triggers)
+ * Rationale: The intent is to have full support for external debug and full
+ support for self-hosted debug (though not necessarily at the same time).
+ This can be provided via the same set of triggers or separate sets of
+ triggers. External debug support for icount is unnecessary due to dcsr.step
+ and is therefore called out separately.
+- For implementations with multiple cores, support for at least one halt group
+and one resume group (in addition to group 0)
+ * Rationale: Allows stopping all harts (approximately) simultaneously which
+ is useful for debugging MP software
+- dcsr.stepie must support the 0 setting. It is optional to support the 1
+setting.
+ * Rationale: It is not generally useful to step into interrupt
handlers.
+- dcsr.stopcount and dcsr.stoptime must be supported and the reset value of
+each must be 1
+ * Rationale: The architecture has strict requirements on minstret which may
+ be perturbed by an external debugger in a way that's visible to software.
+ The default should allow code that's sensitive to these requirements to be
+ debugged.
+
==== Memory Map
* Virtual Memory
* sv39/sv48/sv57
@@ -166,6 +253,20 @@ Spec should be ratified*]
file for each HART ?? (*TBD*)
- IOMMU with support for memory resident interrupt files ?? (*TBD*)
+==== Debug
+The Linux server platform requirements are all of the above plus:
+
+- Implement at least six mcontrol6 triggers that can support matching on PC
+(select=0, execute=1, match=0) with timing=0 and full support for mode
+filtering (vs, vu, m, s, u) for all supported modes and support for textra as
+above.
+ * Rationale: Other architectures have found that 4 breakpoints are
+ insufficient in more capable systems and recommend 6.
+- If system bus access is implemented then accesses must be coherent with
+respect to all harts connected to the DM
+ * Rationale: Debuggers must be able to view memory coherently
+
+
==== Boot and Runtime Requirements
===== Firmware
The boot and system firmware for the RV64I server platforms required to be
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