On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Cc'ing qemu-riscv@ list
>
> On 12/5/26 02:50, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I use qemu-system-riscv32 v11.0.0 for running this code:
> >
> >      15258:    c80025f3    rdcycleh a1
> >      1525c:    c0002573    rdcycle  a0
> >      15260:    c80027f3    rdcycleh a5
> >      15264:    fef59ae3    bne      a1,a5,15258
> >
> > The code is recommended by riscv specification for reading 64-bit
> > cycle counter on 32-bit system (see
> > https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/unpriv/counters.html#7-1-1-zicntr-extension-for-base-counters-and-timers
> > for details).
> >
> > When running on qemu-system-riscv32 both the rdcycle and the rdcycleh
> > instructions read low 32-bit of the cycle counter so the branch
> > instruction always go to 15258.
>
> Interestingly I'm having similar 32/64 bit conversion issue with
> the set of CSR functions in my single binary prototype due to this
> target_ulong use.
>
> >
> > This quick and dirty patch fixes my problem:
> >
> > --- a/target/riscv/csr.c
> > +++ b/target/riscv/csr.c
> > @@ -1389,8 +1389,11 @@ RISCVException riscv_pmu_read_ctr(CPURISCVState
> > *env, target_ulong *val,
> >        */
> >       if (riscv_pmu_ctr_monitor_cycles(env, ctr_idx) ||
> >           riscv_pmu_ctr_monitor_instructions(env, ctr_idx)) {
> > -        *val = riscv_pmu_ctr_get_fixed_counters_val(env, ctr_idx) -
> > +        uint64_t t;
> > +
> > +        t = riscv_pmu_ctr_get_fixed_counters_val(env, ctr_idx) -
> >                                                       ctr_prev + ctr_val;
> > +        *val = extract64(t, start, length);
> >       } else {
> >           *val = ctr_val;
> >       }
> >
> > Have you any suggestion?

Yeah, it looks like a bug using the `target_ulong` (which is only
32-bits on RV32). This is something that should be fixed, if you can
send a patch that would be great

Alistair

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