[PATCH v5 5/8] riscv/runtime-const: Introduce runtime_const_mask_32()

From: K Prateek Nayak

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 00:57:54 EST


Futex hash computation requires a mask operation with read-only after
init data that will be converted to a runtime constant in the subsequent
commit.

Introduce runtime_const_mask_32 to further optimize the mask operation
in the futex hash computation hot path. Since all the current use-cases
are of the form GENMASK(n, 0), with n > 0, following sequence:

srli a0, a1, imm
slli a0, a0, imm

is used for RISC-V where imm = (31 - width) to improve instruction
density and performance.

"The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I - Unprivileged
Architecture" [1] Sec. 2.4.1 "Integer Register-Immediate Instructions"
notes the immediate shift for SRLI and SLLI are 5 bits wide starting at
bit #10. __runtime_fixup_shift() is reused to patch the immediate shifts
for the two instructions.

If a future use case arises that needs to tackle arbitrary mask,
consider using:

lui a0, 0x12346 # upper; +0x800 then >>12 for correct rounding
addi a0, a0, 0x678 # lower 12 bits

to patch the 32-bit mask in the asm block and return "__ret & (val)"
from runtime_const_mask_32() which allows compiler to further optimize
the logical and operation. __runtime_fixup_ptr() already patches a
lui + addi sequence which can be reused when the need arises.

A possible implementation for this alternate scheme can be found at [2].

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
Suggested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/_attachments/riscv-unprivileged.pdf [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260430094730.31624-6-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/ [2]
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
---
changelog v4..v5:

o Pivoted to SRLI + SLLI sequence for mask operation to extract the
lower bits for improved instruction desnity (Charlie, Samuel on v2).
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h | 1 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
index e9e8ba83e632f..b8bf842d4c136 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#define SZREG __REG_SEL(8, 4)
#define LGREG __REG_SEL(3, 2)
#define SRLI __REG_SEL(srliw, srli)
+#define SLLI __REG_SEL(slliw, slli)

#if __SIZEOF_POINTER__ == 8
#ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
index 1ce02605d2e43..dbf96c937dbb9 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
@@ -159,6 +159,23 @@
__ret; \
})

+#define runtime_const_mask_32(val, sym) \
+({ \
+ u32 __ret; \
+ asm_inline(".option push\n\t" \
+ ".option norvc\n\t" \
+ "1:\t" \
+ SLLI " %[__ret],%[__val],12\n\t" \
+ SRLI " %[__ret],%[__ret],12\n\t" \
+ ".option pop\n\t" \
+ ".pushsection runtime_mask_" #sym ",\"a\"\n\t" \
+ ".long 1b - .\n\t" \
+ ".popsection" \
+ : [__ret] "=r" (__ret) \
+ : [__val] "r" (val)); \
+ __ret; \
+})
+
#define runtime_const_init(type, sym) do { \
extern s32 __start_runtime_##type##_##sym[]; \
extern s32 __stop_runtime_##type##_##sym[]; \
@@ -262,6 +279,33 @@ static inline void __runtime_fixup_shift(void *where, unsigned long val)
mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
}

+static inline void __runtime_fixup_mask(void *where, unsigned long val)
+{
+ unsigned int width = __fls(val) + 1;
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: Current implementation only supports patching masks of
+ * form GENMASK(width, 0) (width >= 0) using a SRLI + SLLI
+ * sequence instead of LUI + ADDI + AND sequence to improve
+ * performance, density, and covers all the current use-cases.
+ *
+ * When the need arises to support any generic mask, and this
+ * BUG_ON() is tripped, consider using a:
+ *
+ * lui %[__ret], #imm16
+ * addi %[__ret], #imm16
+ *
+ * sequence to load the 32bit const mask, and perform a logical
+ * and outside the asm block before returning the result. Fixup
+ * can simply reuse the existing __runtime_fixup_32() to patch
+ * the LUI + ADDI sequence.
+ */
+ BUG_ON(!val || width > 31 || (GENMASK(width - 1, 0) != val));
+
+ __runtime_fixup_shift(where, 32 - width);
+ __runtime_fixup_shift(where + 4, 32 - width);
+}
+
static inline void runtime_const_fixup(void (*fn)(void *, unsigned long),
unsigned long val, s32 *start, s32 *end)
{
--
2.34.1