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authorEvan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>2023-04-08 02:11:01 +0300
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2023-04-19 01:48:16 +0300
commit62a31d6e38bd0faef7c956b358d651f7bdc4ae0c (patch)
tree87f6468aa566a9d30fe225fa1e444e64cb387dff /arch/riscv/errata
parent00e76e2c6a2bd3976d44d4a1fdd0b7a3c2566607 (diff)
downloadlinux-62a31d6e38bd0faef7c956b358d651f7bdc4ae0c.tar.xz
RISC-V: hwprobe: Support probing of misaligned access performance
This allows userspace to select various routines to use based on the performance of misaligned access on the target hardware. Rather than adding DT bindings, this change taps into the alternatives mechanism used to probe CPU errata. Add a new function pointer alongside the vendor-specific errata_patch_func() that probes for desirable errata (otherwise known as "features"). Unlike the errata_patch_func(), this function is called on each CPU as it comes up, so it can save feature information per-CPU. The T-head C906 has fast unaligned access, both as defined by GCC [1], and in performing a basic benchmark, which determined that byte copies are >50% slower than a misaligned word copy of the same data size (source for this test at [2]): bytecopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 31664899 us wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 5180919 us wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 1 took 13416949 us [1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/riscv/riscv.cc#L353 [2] https://pastebin.com/EPXvDHSW Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-5-evan@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/errata')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c b/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
index 3b96a06d3c54..5b6d62586a8b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/errata_list.h>
+#include <asm/hwprobe.h>
#include <asm/patch.h>
#include <asm/vendorid_list.h>
@@ -115,3 +117,11 @@ void __init_or_module thead_errata_patch_func(struct alt_entry *begin, struct al
if (stage == RISCV_ALTERNATIVES_EARLY_BOOT)
local_flush_icache_all();
}
+
+void __init_or_module thead_feature_probe_func(unsigned int cpu,
+ unsigned long archid,
+ unsigned long impid)
+{
+ if ((archid == 0) && (impid == 0))
+ per_cpu(misaligned_access_speed, cpu) = RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST;
+}