Svpbmt (the S should be capitalized) is the
"Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types" extension
that specifies attributes for cacheability, idempotency
and ordering.

The relevant settings are done in special bits in PTEs:

Here is the svpbmt PTE format:
| 63 | 62-61 | 60-8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
  N     MT     RSW    D   A   G   U   X   W   R   V
        ^

Of the Reserved bits [63:54] in a leaf PTE, the high bit is already
allocated (as the N bit), so bits [62:61] are used as the MT (aka
MemType) field. This field specifies one of three memory types that
are close equivalents (or equivalent in effect) to the three main x86
and ARMv8 memory types - as shown in the following table.

RISC-V
Encoding &
MemType     RISC-V Description
----------  ------------------------------------------------
00 - PMA    Normal Cacheable, No change to implied PMA memory type
01 - NC     Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered Main Memory
10 - IO     Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered I/O memory
11 - Rsvd   Reserved for future standard use

As the extension will not be present on all implementations,
implement a method to handle cpufeatures via alternatives
to not incur runtime penalties on cpu variants not supporting
specific extensions and patch relevant code parts at runtime.
Co-developed-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Co-developed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
[moved to use the alternatives mechanism]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-10-heiko@sntech.deSigned-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>