If the target supports the Basic bit-manipulation (Zbb) extension, then
the REV8 instruction is available to reverse byte order.
Note that this instruction only exists at the "XLEN" register size,
so we need to right shift the result down to the data width.
If Zbb is not supported, then this patchset does nothing. Support for
run-time detection is left for the future. Currently, there are no
bits in auxv/ELF HWCAP for Z-extensions, so there are no clean ways to
do this.
This uses the architected RISC-V 64-bit cycle counter from the
RISC-V unprivileged instruction set.
In 64-bit and 128-bit, this is a straightforward CSR read.
In 32-bit mode, the 64-bit value is exposed as two CSRs, which
cannot be read atomically, so a loop is necessary to detect and fix up
the race condition where the bottom half wraps exactly between the two
reads.
Rémi Denis-Courmont