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Privileged Instruction Set (+ Atomic instructions and Multiplication and Division instructions)

This is step 4 of the book Writing a RISC-V Emulator from Scratch in 10 Steps, whose goal is running xv6, a small Unix-like OS, in your emulator in the final step.

The source code is available at d0iasm/rvemu-for-book/step04/.

Goal of This Page

In the end of this page, we can execute the part of supervisor ISA, mret and sret. These instructions are used to return from traps in M-mode, S-mode, or U-mode respectively. In addition, we'll add sfence.vma but we don't do anything for now.

We also support a part of "A" standard extension and "M" standard extension. "A" standard extension is atomic instructions (RV64A) and we'll implement amoadd.w, amoadd.d, amoswap.w and amoswap.d. "M" standard extension is multiplication and division instructions (RV64M) and we'll implement divu and remuw since xv6 uses them.

Privilege Levels

Testing