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Unlike some other architectures, RISC-V does not expose the current privilege mode in any architecturally-defined register. That is intentional to make it easier to implement virtualization in software, but a Unicorn caller operates outside of the emulated hart and so it can and should be able to observe and change the current privilege mode in order to properly emulate certain behaviors of a real CPU. The current privilege level is therefore now exposed as a new pseudo-register using the name "priv", which matches the name of the virtual register used by RISC-V's debug extension to allow the debugger to read and change the privilege mode while the hart is halted. Unicorn's use of it is conceptually similar to a debugger. The bit encoding of this register is the same as specified in RISC-V Debug Specification v1.0-rc3 Section 4.10.1. It's defined as a "virtual" register exposing a subset of fields from the dcsr register, although here it's implemented directly inside the Unicorn code because QEMU doesn't currently have explicit support for the CSRs from the debug specification. If it supports "dcsr" in a future release then this implementation could change to wrap reading and writing that CSR and then projecting the "prv" and "v" bitfields into the correct locations for the virtual register.
Unicorn Engine
Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework, based on QEMU.
Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:
- Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, RISCV, SPARC, S390X, TriCore and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal, Haskell, Pharo, Lua and Zig.
- Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, Android, *BSD & Solaris confirmed)
- High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
- Thread-safety by design
- Distributed under free software license GPLv2
Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org
License
This project is released under the GPL license.
Compilation & Docs
See docs/COMPILE.md file for how to compile and install Unicorn.
More documentation is available in docs/README.md.
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