RE: [PATCH] RISC-V: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension

[Wang, Xiao W]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 5:39 PM
> To: Wang, Xiao W <xiao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx; palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Li, Haicheng
> <haicheng.li@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension
> 
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 04:39, Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch leverages the alternative mechanism to dynamically optimize
> > bitops (including __ffs, __fls, ffs, fls) with Zbb instructions. When
> > Zbb ext is not supported by the runtime CPU, legacy implementation is
> > used. If Zbb is supported, then the optimized variants will be selected
> > via alternative patching.
> >
> > The legacy bitops support is taken from the generic C implementation as
> > fallback.
> >
> > If the parameter is a build-time constant, we leverage compiler builtin to
> > calculate the result directly, this approach is inspired by x86 bitops
> > implementation.
> >
> > EFI stub runs before the kernel, so alternative mechanism should not be
> > used there, this patch introduces a macro EFI_NO_ALTERNATIVE for this
> > purpose.
> >
> 
> Why? The unpatched sequences work fine, no?

It works. But there would be build warning: orphan section `.init.alternative' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/gop.stub.o' being placed in section `.init.alternative'. Besides, w/o this MACRO, the optimized variant would never be used at runtime, so this patch choose to disable alternative.

BRs,
Xiao

> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h       | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile |   2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h
> b/arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h
> > index 3540b690944b..f727f6489cd5 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/bitops.h
> > @@ -15,13 +15,273 @@
> >  #include <asm/barrier.h>
> >  #include <asm/bitsperlong.h>
> >
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) || defined(EFI_NO_ALTERNATIVE)
> >  #include <asm-generic/bitops/__ffs.h>
> > -#include <asm-generic/bitops/ffz.h>
> > -#include <asm-generic/bitops/fls.h>
> >  #include <asm-generic/bitops/__fls.h>
> > +#include <asm-generic/bitops/ffs.h>
> > +#include <asm-generic/bitops/fls.h>
> > +
> > +#else
> > +#include <asm/alternative-macros.h>
> > +#include <asm/hwcap.h>
> > +
> > +#if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64)
> > +#define CTZW   "ctzw "
> > +#define CLZW   "clzw "
> > +#elif (BITS_PER_LONG == 32)
> > +#define CTZW   "ctz "
> > +#define CLZW   "clz "
> > +#else
> > +#error "Unexpected BITS_PER_LONG"
> > +#endif
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