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From: Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>
To: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"palmer@sifive.com" <palmer@sifive.com>,
	"paul.walmsley@sifive.com" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] riscv: don't use the rdtime(h) pseudo-instructions
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:50:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86633111d71e99e3cedca378d39e0349b424280d.camel@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826113034.GC15002@lst.de>

On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 13:30 +0200, hch@lst.de wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:37:02AM +0000, Atish Patra wrote:
> > > -static inline cycles_t get_cycles_inline(void)
> > > +static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
> > >  {
> > > -	cycles_t n;
> > > -
> > > -	__asm__ __volatile__ (
> > > -		"rdtime %0"
> > > -		: "=r" (n));
> > > -	return n;
> > > +	return csr_read(CSR_TIME);
> > 
> > Does this work correctly in QEMU ? I was looking at the qemu code
> > and
> > it looks like it returns cpu_get_host_ticks which seems wrong to
> > me.
> 
> It better should.  rdtime is just a pseudo-instruction that the
> assembler translates to a CSR read.  (in other words something
> totally
> pointless, no idea why it even is in the spec).

Yes. I did not see the usermode macro carefully in qemu code.

Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

-- 
Regards,
Atish
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21 14:58 misc riscv cleanups Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] riscv: refactor the IPI code Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  1:03   ` Atish Patra
2019-09-05  8:44   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] riscv: cleanup send_ipi_mask Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  0:11   ` Atish Patra
2019-08-26 11:28     ` hch
2019-08-27 18:45       ` Atish Patra
2019-09-05  8:46   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] riscv: optimize send_ipi_single Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  0:26   ` Atish Patra
2019-08-26 11:29     ` hch
2019-08-27 18:48       ` Atish Patra
2019-09-05  8:48   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] riscv: cleanup riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  0:03   ` Atish Patra
2019-09-05  8:50   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] riscv: don't use the rdtime(h) pseudo-instructions Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  0:37   ` Atish Patra
2019-08-24  0:43     ` Atish Patra
2019-08-26 11:30     ` hch
2019-08-27 18:50       ` Atish Patra [this message]
2019-09-05  8:55   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] riscv: move the TLB flush logic out of line Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-24  0:03   ` Atish Patra
2019-09-05  8:58   ` Paul Walmsley

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