[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb][debugserver] Read/write SME registers on arm64 (PR #119171)

[Jason Molenda via lldb-commits]

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@@ -93,6 +93,55 @@ DNBArchMachARM64::SoftwareBreakpointOpcode(nub_size_t byte_size) {
 
 uint32_t DNBArchMachARM64::GetCPUType() { return CPU_TYPE_ARM64; }
 
+static std::once_flag g_cpu_has_sme_once;
+bool DNBArchMachARM64::CPUHasSME() {
+  static bool g_has_sme = false;
+  std::call_once(g_cpu_has_sme_once, []() {
+    int ret = 0;
+    size_t size = sizeof(ret);
+    if (sysctlbyname("hw.optional.arm.FEAT_SME", &ret, &size, NULL, 0) != -1)
+      g_has_sme = ret == 1;
+  });
+  return g_has_sme;
+}
+
+static std::once_flag g_cpu_has_sme2_once;
+bool DNBArchMachARM64::CPUHasSME2() {
+  static bool g_has_sme2 = false;
+  std::call_once(g_cpu_has_sme2_once, []() {
+    int ret = 0;
+    size_t size = sizeof(ret);
+    if (sysctlbyname("hw.optional.arm.FEAT_SME2", &ret, &size, NULL, 0) != -1)
+      g_has_sme2 = ret == 1;
+  });
+  return g_has_sme2;
+}
+
+static std::once_flag g_sme_max_svl_once;
+unsigned int DNBArchMachARM64::GetSMEMaxSVL() {
+  static unsigned int g_sme_max_svl = 0;
+  std::call_once(g_sme_max_svl_once, []() {
+    if (CPUHasSME()) {
+      unsigned int ret = 0;
+      size_t size = sizeof(ret);
+      if (sysctlbyname("hw.optional.arm.sme_max_svl_b", &ret, &size, NULL, 0) !=
+          -1)
+        g_sme_max_svl = ret;
+      else
+        g_sme_max_svl = get_svl_bytes();
+    }
+  });
+  return g_sme_max_svl;
+}
+
+// This function can only be called on systems with hw.optional.arm.FEAT_SME
+// It will return the maximum SVL length for this process.
+uint16_t __attribute__((target("sme"))) DNBArchMachARM64::get_svl_bytes(void) {
+  uint64_t ret = 0;
+  asm volatile("rdsvl	%[ret], #1" : [ret] "=r"(ret));
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jasonmolenda wrote:

I had to install a newer kernel with the newly added sysctl to test & confirm that the sysctl works.  I'll remove the "read debugserver's max SVL and use it" fallback.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/119171