Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] riscv: Decouple emulated unaligned accesses from access speed

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 02:55:50 EST


On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:00:03PM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> Detecting if a system traps into the kernel on an unaligned access
> can be performed separately from checking the speed of unaligned
> accesses. This decoupling will make it possible to selectively enable
> or disable each of these checks

> as is done in the following patch.

nit: these sort of comments can bitrot if things get backported or
may not be accurate if only partial series get applied to a branch.

> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Conor.

> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 +-
> arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 15 +++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> index 466e1f591919..6fec91845aa0 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void riscv_user_isa_enable(void);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_MISALIGNED
> bool unaligned_ctl_available(void);
> -bool check_unaligned_access_emulated(int cpu);
> +bool check_unaligned_access_emulated_all_cpus(void);
> void unaligned_emulation_finish(void);
> #else
> static inline bool unaligned_ctl_available(void)
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 7878cddccc0d..abb3a2f53106 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -719,7 +719,8 @@ static int check_unaligned_access(void *param)
> void *src;
> long speed = RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW;
>
> - if (check_unaligned_access_emulated(cpu))
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_MISALIGNED) &&
> + per_cpu(misaligned_access_speed, cpu) != RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN)
> return 0;
>
> /* Make an unaligned destination buffer. */
> @@ -896,8 +897,8 @@ static int riscv_offline_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -/* Measure unaligned access on all CPUs present at boot in parallel. */
> -static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
> +/* Measure unaligned access speed on all CPUs present at boot in parallel. */
> +static int check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus(void)
> {
> unsigned int cpu;
> unsigned int cpu_count = num_possible_cpus();
> @@ -935,7 +936,6 @@ static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
> riscv_online_cpu, riscv_offline_cpu);
>
> out:
> - unaligned_emulation_finish();
> for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask) {
> if (bufs[cpu])
> __free_pages(bufs[cpu], MISALIGNED_BUFFER_ORDER);
> @@ -945,6 +945,23 @@ static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_MISALIGNED
> +static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
> +{
> + bool all_cpus_emulated = check_unaligned_access_emulated_all_cpus();
> +
> + if (!all_cpus_emulated)
> + return check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus();
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#else
> +static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
> +{
> + return check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus();
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> arch_initcall(check_unaligned_access_all_cpus);
>
> void riscv_user_isa_enable(void)
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> index c2ed4e689bf9..e55718179f42 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ int handle_misaligned_store(struct pt_regs *regs)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -bool check_unaligned_access_emulated(int cpu)
> +static bool check_unaligned_access_emulated(int cpu)
> {
> long *mas_ptr = per_cpu_ptr(&misaligned_access_speed, cpu);
> unsigned long tmp_var, tmp_val;
> @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ bool check_unaligned_access_emulated(int cpu)
> return misaligned_emu_detected;
> }
>
> -void unaligned_emulation_finish(void)
> +bool check_unaligned_access_emulated_all_cpus(void)
> {
> int cpu;
>
> @@ -632,13 +632,12 @@ void unaligned_emulation_finish(void)
> * accesses emulated since tasks requesting such control can run on any
> * CPU.
> */
> - for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> - if (per_cpu(misaligned_access_speed, cpu) !=
> - RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_EMULATED) {
> - return;
> - }
> - }
> + for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> + if (!check_unaligned_access_emulated(cpu))
> + return false;
> +
> unaligned_ctl = true;
> + return true;
> }
>
> bool unaligned_ctl_available(void)
>
> --
> 2.43.2
>

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