[PATCH v8 0/4] riscv: Use Kconfig to set unaligned access speed

From: Charlie Jenkins
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 14:06:12 EST


If the hardware unaligned access speed is known at compile time, it is
possible to avoid running the unaligned access speed probe to speedup
boot-time.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v8:
- Minor commit message changes (Conor)
- Clean up hwprobe_misaligned() (Conor)
- Link to v7: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v7-0-6c90419e7a96@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v7:
- Fix check_unaligned_access_emulated_all_cpus to return false when any
cpu has emulated accesses
- Fix wording in Kconfig (Conor)
- Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v6-0-612ebd69f430@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v6:
- Consolidate Kconfig into 4 options (probe, emulated, slow,
efficient)
- Change the behavior of "emulated" to allow hwprobe to return "slow" if
unaligned accesses are not emulated by the kernel
- With this consolidation, check_unaligned_access_emulated is able to be
moved back into the original file (traps_misaligned.c)
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v5-0-b6853846e27a@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v5:
- Clarify Kconfig options from Conor's feedback
- Use "unaligned" instead of "misaligned" in introduced file/function.
This is a bit hard to standardize because the riscv manual says
"misaligned" but the existing Linux configs say "unaligned".
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240216-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v4-0-dc01e581c0ac@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v4:
- Add additional Kconfig options for the other unaligned access speeds
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v3-0-c44f91f03bb6@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v3:
- Revert change to csum (Eric)
- Change ifndefs for ifdefs (Eric)
- Change config in Makefile (Elliot/Eric)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240201-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v2-0-77c368bed7b2@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- Move around definitions to reduce ifdefs (Clément)
- Make RISCV_MISALIGNED depend on !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
(Clément)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v1-0-98d155e9cda8@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Charlie Jenkins (4):
riscv: lib: Introduce has_fast_unaligned_access()
riscv: Only check online cpus for emulated accesses
riscv: Decouple emulated unaligned accesses from access speed
riscv: Set unaligned access speed at compile time

arch/riscv/Kconfig | 60 ++++--
arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 31 ++--
arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 4 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 255 --------------------------
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 13 ++
arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 17 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c | 282 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/lib/csum.c | 7 +-
8 files changed, 376 insertions(+), 293 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d
change-id: 20240131-disable_misaligned_probe_config-043aea375f93
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- Charlie