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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	alastair@d-silva.org, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc: Convert flush_icache_range & friends to C
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 19:05:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <321b003a-9633-5ff4-c4a2-59a47ec23421@c-s.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903160415.GA9749@gate.crashing.org>



Le 03/09/2019 à 18:04, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Le 03/09/2019 à 15:04, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
>>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 03:23:57PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
>>>> +	asm volatile(
>>>> +		"   mtctr %2;"
>>>> +		"   mtmsr %3;"
>>>> +		"   isync;"
>>>> +		"0: dcbst   0, %0;"
>>>> +		"   addi    %0, %0, %4;"
>>>> +		"   bdnz    0b;"
>>>> +		"   sync;"
>>>> +		"   mtctr %2;"
>>>> +		"1: icbi    0, %1;"
>>>> +		"   addi    %1, %1, %4;"
>>>> +		"   bdnz    1b;"
>>>> +		"   sync;"
>>>> +		"   mtmsr %5;"
>>>> +		"   isync;"
>>>> +		: "+r" (loop1), "+r" (loop2)
>>>> +		: "r" (nb), "r" (msr), "i" (bytes), "r" (msr0)
>>>> +		: "ctr", "memory");
>>>
>>> This outputs as one huge assembler statement, all on one line.  That's
>>> going to be fun to read or debug.
>>
>> Do you mean \n has to be added after the ; ?
> 
> Something like that.  There is no really satisfying way for doing huge
> inline asm, and maybe that is a good thing ;-)
> 
> Often people write \n\t at the end of each line of inline asm.  This works
> pretty well (but then there are labels, oh joy).
> 
>>> loop1 and/or loop2 can be assigned the same register as msr0 or nb.  They
>>> need to be made earlyclobbers.  (msr is fine, all of its reads are before
>>> any writes to loop1 or loop2; and bytes is fine, it's not a register).
>>
>> Can you explicit please ? Doesn't '+r' means that they are input and
>> output at the same time ?
> 
> That is what + means, yes -- that this output is an input as well.  It is
> the same to write
> 
>    asm("mov %1,%0 ; mov %0,42" : "+r"(x), "=r"(y));
> or to write
>    asm("mov %1,%0 ; mov %0,42" : "=r"(x), "=r"(y) : "0"(x));
> 
> (So not "at the same time" as in "in the same machine instruction", but
> more loosely, as in "in the same inline asm statement").
> 
>> "to be made earlyclobbers", what does this means exactly ? How to do that ?
> 
> You write &, like "+&r" in this case.  It means the machine code writes
> to this register before it has consumed all asm inputs (remember, GCC
> does not understand (or even parse!) the assembler string).
> 
> So just
> 
> 		: "+&r" (loop1), "+&r" (loop2)
> 
> will do.  (Why are they separate though?  It could just be one loop var).

Yes it could just be a single loop var, but in that case it would have 
to be reset at the start of the second loop, which means we would have 
to pass 'addr' for resetting the loop anyway, so I opted to do it 
outside the inline asm by using to separate loop vars set to their 
starting value outside the inline asm.

Christophe

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-03 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-03  5:23 [PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc: convert cache asm to C Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache_range to work across ranges >4GB Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-14  7:46   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-16  3:25     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] powerpc: define helpers to get L1 icache sizes Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc: Convert flush_icache_range & friends to C Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:08   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03 11:25     ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-04  3:23     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-04 13:35       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 13:04   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 14:28     ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03 16:04       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 17:05         ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2019-09-03 18:31           ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 20:11             ` Gabriel Paubert
2019-09-04  3:42               ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-04  3:36         ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] powerpc: Chunk calls to flush_dcache_range in arch_*_memory Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:19   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  6:25     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:51       ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-04  4:11         ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc: Remove 'extern' from func prototypes in cache headers Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:21   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  5:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] powerpc: Don't flush caches when adding memory Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:23   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  6:27     ` Alastair D'Silva

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