[PATCH v5 3/8] arm64/runtime-const: Introduce runtime_const_mask_32()

From: K Prateek Nayak

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 00:59:08 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, a single:

ubfx w0, w0, #0, #widthm1 // w0 = w0 [widthm1:0]

instruction is used for amd64 to improve instruction dinsity and
performance.

"Arm A-profile A64 Instruction Set Architecture" manual, Sec.
"A64 -- Base Instructions" [1] for UBFX instruction highlights the
immediate "width" is encoded as width minus 1 in imms (Bits [15:10])
which is patched by __runtime_fixup_mask() once the mask is known.

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

movz w1, #lo16, lsl #0
movk w1, #hi16, lsl #16

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
"movz, + movk lsl #16" 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-4-6
Suggested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2026-03/Base-Instructions/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260430094730.31624-4-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/ [2]
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
---
changelog v4..v5:

o Pivoted to using the UBFX instruction for masking since the futex
use-case use masks of form 2^n - 1 (n > 1) since there was enough
interest to improve instruction density for ARM64 and RISC-V.
(Charlie, Samuel on v2)

o Dropped Catalin's tag as a result of changed approach.
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/runtime-const.h | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/runtime-const.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/runtime-const.h
index 838145bc289d2..371c9a4bc2d4b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/runtime-const.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/runtime-const.h
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@
:"r" (0u+(val))); \
__ret; })

+#define runtime_const_mask_32(val, sym) ({ \
+ unsigned long __ret; \
+ asm_inline("1:\t" \
+ "ubfx %w0, %w1, #0, #32\n\t" \
+ ".pushsection runtime_mask_" #sym ",\"a\"\n\t" \
+ ".long 1b - .\n\t" \
+ ".popsection" \
+ :"=r" (__ret) \
+ :"r" (0u+(val))); \
+ __ret; })
+
#define runtime_const_init(type, sym) do { \
extern s32 __start_runtime_##type##_##sym[]; \
extern s32 __stop_runtime_##type##_##sym[]; \
@@ -73,6 +84,41 @@ static inline void __runtime_fixup_shift(void *where, unsigned long val)
aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(p, insn);
}

+static inline void __runtime_fixup_mask(void *where, unsigned long val)
+{
+ unsigned int width = __fls(val) + 1;
+ __le32 *p = where;
+ u32 insn;
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: Current implementation only supports patching masks of
+ * form GENMASK(n, 0) (n >= 0) using a single UBFX instruction
+ * 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:
+ *
+ * movz %w0, #imm16
+ * movk %w0, #imm16, lsl #16
+ *
+ * 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_16() to patch
+ * the individual mov instructions.
+ */
+ BUG_ON(!val || width > 32 || (GENMASK(width - 1, 0) != val));
+
+ /*
+ * The width of the mask is encoded as (width - 1) in imms
+ * which is 6 bits starting at bit #10.
+ */
+ insn = le32_to_cpu(*p);
+ insn &= 0xffff03ff;
+ insn |= ((width - 1) & 0x1f) << 10;
+ aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(p, insn);
+}
+
static inline void runtime_const_fixup(void (*fn)(void *, unsigned long),
unsigned long val, s32 *start, s32 *end)
{
--
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