[PATCH] Set rv64gcv as default to enable vector extension for disassembly

[Jan Beulich]

On 31.07.2025 09:21, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:37:16AM +0800, Nelson Chu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Why is that needed?  AFAICT, objdump will happily decode any extension
>>> without that change.
>>>
>>
>>  I guess maybe they are trying to dump an object which writes
>> vector instructions by .insn directives, so the elf architecture attribute
>> or mapping symbols won't have v.  I will suggest two solutions here rather
> 
> The goal here is to be able to use the disassembler from inside of
> native riscv gdb to dump any instruction.

Yet you won't achieve that by enabling just V.

> Currently it seems like gdb
> will only dump a subset of all instructions, even with the patch you
> sent Nelson. Here is an example program:
> 
> $ cat sample.c
> // sample.c
> volatile int num;
> volatile int num2;
> 
> int main()
> {
>         asm("vsetvli t0, a0, e32");
>         return num & ~num2; // zbb instruction andn
> }
> $ gcc -march=rv64gcv_zbb -O2 sample.c -o sample
> $ readelf -A sample
> Attribute Section: riscv
> File Attributes
>   Tag_RISCV_stack_align: 16-bytes
>   Tag_RISCV_arch: "rv64i2p1_m2p0_a2p1_f2p2_d2p2_c2p0_v1p0_zicsr2p0_zifencei2p0_zmmul1p0_zbb1p0_zve32f1p0_zve32x1p0_zve64d1p0_zve64f1p0_zve64x1p0_zvl128b1p0_zvl32b1p0_zvl64b1p0"
> $ objdump -d sample
> ...
> 0000000000000570 <main>:
>  570:   010572d7                vsetvli t0,a0,e32,m1,tu,mu
>  574:   00002517                auipc   a0,0x2
>  578:   a9852503                lw      a0,-1384(a0) # 200c <num2>
>  57c:   00002797                auipc   a5,0x2
>  580:   a947a783                lw      a5,-1388(a5) # 2010 <num>
>  584:   40a7f533                andn    a0,a5,a0
>  588:   8082                    ret
> ...
> $ gdb sample
> (gdb) disassemble main
> Dump of assembler code for function main:
>    0x0000000000000570 <+0>:     .insn   4, 0x010572d7
>    0x0000000000000574 <+4>:     auipc   a0,0x2
>    0x0000000000000578 <+8>:     lw      a0,-1384(a0) # 0x200c <num2>
>    0x000000000000057c <+12>:    auipc   a5,0x2
>    0x0000000000000580 <+16>:    lw      a5,-1388(a5) # 0x2010 <num>
>    0x0000000000000584 <+20>:    .insn   4, 0x40a7f533
>    0x0000000000000588 <+24>:    .insn   2, 0x8082
> 
> The disassembled instructions are lacking, even though the attributes
> contains the extensions. I had previously thought that this had to do
> with the decode() function in gdb/riscv-tdep.c but that seems to only
> handle gdb-specific decoding and not this disassembling. 
> 
> What is the way to have the disassembler dump all of the instructions of
> supported extensions on native riscv gdb?

Iirc there is a way to achieve ...

>> than just modify the default_arch,
>> 1. using -Mmax option

... the effect of this (objdump) option also in gdb, presumably via
some "set" command. Whether it makes sense to make this (and not
GCV) the default in gdb I don't know. The problem is that there are
conflicting extensions. It may be better to set the default based on
(target) host capabilities.

Jan