Hi,
I've built a testcase for this similar to the one you suggested. This test
checks both reading and writing the za register via $za and via the tiles
and tiles slices that gdb produces (i.e., za0hb0). However, these tiles and
slices are generated from the gdb side, they're not made available by any
of the changes that I have implemented. But this feature of gdb's kicks in
when using gdb14.1 or newer. Due to this, the testcase works correctly when
used with gdb14.1 and above, and fails on any gdb version older than that
as the tiles/slices are not made available by gdb.
I was wondering if there is any way to set a requirement on this testcase
which specifies it needs to be run with minimum of gdb version 14.1
which has the functionality to break down the ZA storage into tiles and
slices?
Thanks,
Vacha
On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Vacha Bhavsar <vacha.bhav...@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:
>
> > The QEMU GDB stub does not expose the ZA storage SME register to GDB via
> > the remote serial protocol, which can be a useful functionality to debug
> SME
> > code. To provide this functionality in Aarch64 target, this patch
> registers the
> > SME register set with the GDB stub. To do so, this patch implements the
> > aarch64_gdb_get_sme_reg() and aarch64_gdb_set_sme_reg() functions to
> > specify how to get and set the SME registers, and the
> > arm_gen_dynamic_smereg_feature() function to generate the target
> > description in XML format to indicate the target architecture supports
> SME.
> > Finally, this patch includes a dyn_smereg_feature structure to hold this
> > GDB XML description of the SME registers for each CPU.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vacha Bhavsar <vacha.bhav...@oss.qualcomm.com>
> > ---
> > Changes since v3:
> > - added changes to aarch64_gdb_set_sme_reg() to address the concerns
> > brought up in review regarding endianness
> >
> > target/arm/cpu.h | 1 +
> > target/arm/gdbstub.c | 6 ++
> > target/arm/gdbstub64.c | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > target/arm/internals.h | 3 +
> > 4 files changed, 132 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.h b/target/arm/cpu.h
> > index dc9b6dce4c..8bd66d7049 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/cpu.h
> > +++ b/target/arm/cpu.h
> > @@ -933,6 +933,7 @@ struct ArchCPU {
> >
> > DynamicGDBFeatureInfo dyn_sysreg_feature;
> > DynamicGDBFeatureInfo dyn_svereg_feature;
> > + DynamicGDBFeatureInfo dyn_smereg_feature;
> > DynamicGDBFeatureInfo dyn_m_systemreg_feature;
> > DynamicGDBFeatureInfo dyn_m_secextreg_feature;
> >
> > diff --git a/target/arm/gdbstub.c b/target/arm/gdbstub.c
> > index ce4497ad7c..9c942c77cc 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/gdbstub.c
> > +++ b/target/arm/gdbstub.c
> > @@ -531,6 +531,12 @@ void arm_cpu_register_gdb_regs_for_features(ARMCPU
> *cpu)
> > GDBFeature *feature = arm_gen_dynamic_svereg_feature(cs,
> cs->gdb_num_regs);
> > gdb_register_coprocessor(cs, aarch64_gdb_get_sve_reg,
> > aarch64_gdb_set_sve_reg, feature,
> 0);
> > + if (isar_feature_aa64_sme(&cpu->isar)) {
> > + GDBFeature *sme_feature =
> arm_gen_dynamic_smereg_feature(cs,
> > + cs->gdb_num_regs);
> > + gdb_register_coprocessor(cs, aarch64_gdb_get_sme_reg,
> > + aarch64_gdb_set_sme_reg, sme_feature, 0);
> > + }
> > } else {
> > gdb_register_coprocessor(cs, aarch64_gdb_get_fpu_reg,
> > aarch64_gdb_set_fpu_reg,
> > diff --git a/target/arm/gdbstub64.c b/target/arm/gdbstub64.c
> > index 64ee9b3b56..3d86980bc9 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/gdbstub64.c
> > +++ b/target/arm/gdbstub64.c
> > @@ -228,6 +228,91 @@ int aarch64_gdb_set_sve_reg(CPUState *cs, uint8_t
> *buf, int reg)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +int aarch64_gdb_get_sme_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg)
> > +{
> > + ARMCPU *cpu = ARM_CPU(cs);
> > + CPUARMState *env = &cpu->env;
> > +
> > + switch (reg) {
> > + /* Svg register */
> > + case 0:
> > + {
> > + int vq = 0;
> > + if (FIELD_EX64(env->svcr, SVCR, SM)) {
> > + vq = sve_vqm1_for_el_sm(env, arm_current_el(env),
> > + FIELD_EX64(env->svcr, SVCR, SM)) + 1;
> > + }
> > + /* svg = vector granules (2 * vector quardwords) in streaming
> mode */
> > + return gdb_get_reg64(buf, vq * 2);
> > + }
> > + case 1:
> > + return gdb_get_reg64(buf, env->svcr);
> > + case 2:
> > + {
> > + int len = 0;
> > + int vq = cpu->sme_max_vq;
> > + int svl = vq * 16;
> > + for (int i = 0; i < svl; i++) {
> > + for (int q = 0; q < vq; q++) {
> > + len += gdb_get_reg128(buf,
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2 + 1],
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2]);
> > + }
> > + }
> > + return len;
> > + }
> > + default:
> > + /* gdbstub asked for something out of range */
> > + qemu_log_mask(LOG_UNIMP, "%s: out of range register %d",
> __func__, reg);
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +int aarch64_gdb_set_sme_reg(CPUState *cs, uint8_t *buf, int reg)
> > +{
> > + ARMCPU *cpu = ARM_CPU(cs);
> > + CPUARMState *env = &cpu->env;
> > +
> > + switch (reg) {
> > + case 0:
> > + {
> > + /* cannot set svg via gdbstub */
> > + return 8;
> > + }
> > + case 1:
> > + aarch64_set_svcr(env, ldq_le_p(buf),
> > + R_SVCR_SM_MASK | R_SVCR_ZA_MASK);
> > + return 8;
> > + case 2:
> > + int len = 0;
> > + int vq = cpu->sme_max_vq;
> > + int svl = vq * 16;
> > + for (int i = 0; i < svl; i++) {
> > + for (int q = 0; q < vq; q++) {
> > + if (target_big_endian()){
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2 + 1] = ldq_p(buf);
> > + buf += 8;
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2] = ldq_p(buf);
> > + } else{
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2] = ldq_p(buf);
> > + buf += 8;
> > + env->za_state.za[i].d[q * 2 + 1] = ldq_p(buf);
> > + }
> > + buf += 8;
> > + len += 16;
> > + }
> > + }
> > + return len;
> > + default:
> > + /* gdbstub asked for something out of range */
> > + break;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > int aarch64_gdb_get_pauth_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg)
> > {
> > ARMCPU *cpu = ARM_CPU(cs);
> > @@ -392,6 +477,43 @@ GDBFeature *arm_gen_dynamic_svereg_feature(CPUState
> *cs, int base_reg)
> > return &cpu->dyn_svereg_feature.desc;
> > }
> >
> > +GDBFeature *arm_gen_dynamic_smereg_feature(CPUState *cs, int base_reg)
> > +{
> > + ARMCPU *cpu = ARM_CPU(cs);
> > + int vq = cpu->sme_max_vq;
> > + int svl = vq * 16;
> > + GDBFeatureBuilder builder;
> > + int reg = 0;
> > +
> > + gdb_feature_builder_init(&builder, &cpu->dyn_smereg_feature.desc,
> > + "org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.sme", "sme-registers.xml", base_reg);
> > +
> > +
> > + /* Create the sme_bv vector type. */
> > + gdb_feature_builder_append_tag(&builder,
> > + "<vector id=\"sme_bv\" type=\"uint8\" count=\"%d\"/>",
> > + svl);
> > +
> > + /* Create the sme_bvv vector type. */
> > + gdb_feature_builder_append_tag(
> > + &builder, "<vector id=\"sme_bvv\" type=\"sme_bv\"
> count=\"%d\"/>",
> > + svl);
> > +
> > + /* Define the svg, svcr, and za registers. */
> > +
> > + /* fpscr & status registers */
> > + gdb_feature_builder_append_reg(&builder, "svg", 64, reg++,
> > + "int", NULL);
> > + gdb_feature_builder_append_reg(&builder, "svcr", 64, reg++,
> > + "int", NULL);
> > + gdb_feature_builder_append_reg(&builder, "za", svl * svl * 8, reg++,
> > + "sme_bvv", NULL);
> > +
> > + gdb_feature_builder_end(&builder);
> > +
> > + return &cpu->dyn_smereg_feature.desc;
> > +}
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
> > int aarch64_gdb_get_tag_ctl_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg)
> > {
> > diff --git a/target/arm/internals.h b/target/arm/internals.h
> > index c4765e4489..760e1c6490 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/internals.h
> > +++ b/target/arm/internals.h
> > @@ -1808,8 +1808,11 @@ static inline uint64_t
> pmu_counter_mask(CPUARMState *env)
> > }
> >
> > GDBFeature *arm_gen_dynamic_svereg_feature(CPUState *cpu, int base_reg);
> > +GDBFeature *arm_gen_dynamic_smereg_feature(CPUState *cpu, int base_reg);
> > int aarch64_gdb_get_sve_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg);
> > int aarch64_gdb_set_sve_reg(CPUState *cs, uint8_t *buf, int reg);
> > +int aarch64_gdb_get_sme_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg);
> > +int aarch64_gdb_set_sme_reg(CPUState *cs, uint8_t *buf, int reg);
> > int aarch64_gdb_get_fpu_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg);
> > int aarch64_gdb_set_fpu_reg(CPUState *cs, uint8_t *buf, int reg);
> > int aarch64_gdb_get_pauth_reg(CPUState *cs, GByteArray *buf, int reg);
>
> It would also be nice to add a test for this, see
> tests/tcg/aarch64/gdbstub/test-sve.py
>
> --
> Alex Bennée
> Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
>
