hwprobe reports whether an extension is present in hardware, not whether it
is usable by the calling process. Vector can be disabled per-process via
prctl(PR_RISCV_V_SET_CONTROL, PR_RISCV_V_VSTATE_CTRL_OFF), yet
RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0 still reports it. An IFUNC resolver that
dispatches to a vector routine on that basis then takes a SIGILL.

This series adds RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_EXT_ENABLED, a positional modifier:
within one request, keys before it report present-in-hardware, keys after
it report present-and-enabled for the calling process. Both views come back
in a single call:

      [ {IMA_EXT_0}, {EXT_ENABLED}, {IMA_EXT_0} ]
          present       modifier       enabled

When V is disabled for the process, V and its V-dependent sub-extensions are
cleared from a following RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_IMA_EXT_0, and XTHEADVECTOR is
cleared from a following RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0. The enabled
view is per-process, so requests carrying the modifier are deferred from the
vDSO to the syscall. Old kernels report the key as -1, so support is
detectable and existing users are unaffected.

The earlier documentation patch [1] clarified that userspace should discover
non-standard Vector extensions through hwprobe(2) and then use
prctl(PR_RISCV_V_GET_CONTROL) to check whether the process is actually
allowed to execute them. Requiring that separate prctl step is awkward for
the IFUNC-resolver environment, where a resolver wants to decide from the
single hwprobe query it already issues. This series folds the availability
check into hwprobe itself, so a resolver obtains present-and-enabled state
in one call.

Tested under QEMU (rv64, V enabled); the selftest passes. The disabled-V
case runs in a forked child that sets the NEXT control to off and execs a
nolibc worker, since V cannot be disabled in-place (-EPERM) and a
vector-using libc cannot run with V off. That check assumes
/proc/sys/abi/riscv_v_default_allow == 1 and skips otherwise.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260107000609.63892-1-andybnac@gmail.com/
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220795

Andy Chiu (2):
  riscv: hwprobe: export the availability of vector to user
  selftests: riscv: hwprobe: test the RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_EXT_ENABLED
    modifier

 Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst          |  27 +++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h              |   2 +-
 .../asm/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.h     |   6 +-
 arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h         |   2 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c               |  34 ++++--
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/hwprobe.c              |  25 +++-
 .../kernel/vendor_extensions/thead_hwprobe.c  |   9 +-
 .../selftests/riscv/hwprobe/.gitignore        |   2 +
 .../testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/Makefile  |  14 ++-
 .../selftests/riscv/hwprobe/ext-enabled.c     | 111 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../riscv/hwprobe/ext-enabled_nolibc.c        |  58 +++++++++
 11 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/ext-enabled.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/hwprobe/ext-enabled_nolibc.c


base-commit: 0ca1724b56af054e304a9f3f60623b02a81aba3f
prerequisite-patch-id: ecac88d39cfd235fd3bd3be495124f8156f45c5f
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2.43.0