[PATCH] RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel

[Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>]

Probing for misaligned access speed takes about 0.06 seconds. On a
system with 64 cores, doing this in smp_callin() means it's done
serially, extending boot time by 3.8 seconds. That's a lot of boot time.

Instead of measuring each CPU serially, let's do the measurements on
all CPUs in parallel. If we disable preemption on all CPUs, the
jiffies stop ticking, so we can do this in stages of 1) everybody
except core 0, then 2) core 0.

The measurement call in smp_callin() stays around, but is now
conditionalized to only run if a new CPU shows up after the round of
in-parallel measurements has run. The goal is to have the measurement
call not run during boot or suspend/resume, but only on a hotplug
addition.

Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>

---

Jisheng, I didn't add your Tested-by tag since the patch evolved from
the one you tested. Hopefully this one brings you the same result.

---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  3 ++-
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index d0345bd659c9..19e7817eba10 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(long, misaligned_access_speed);
 /* Per-cpu ISA extensions. */
 extern struct riscv_isainfo hart_isa[NR_CPUS];
 
-void check_unaligned_access(int cpu);
+extern bool misaligned_speed_measured;
+int check_unaligned_access(void *unused);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 1cfbba65d11a..8eb36e1dfb95 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ struct riscv_isainfo hart_isa[NR_CPUS];
 /* Performance information */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, misaligned_access_speed);
 
+/* Boot-time in-parallel unaligned access measurement has occurred. */
+bool misaligned_speed_measured;
+
 /**
  * riscv_isa_extension_base() - Get base extension word
  *
@@ -556,8 +559,9 @@ unsigned long riscv_get_elf_hwcap(void)
 	return hwcap;
 }
 
-void check_unaligned_access(int cpu)
+int check_unaligned_access(void *unused)
 {
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	u64 start_cycles, end_cycles;
 	u64 word_cycles;
 	u64 byte_cycles;
@@ -571,7 +575,7 @@ void check_unaligned_access(int cpu)
 	page = alloc_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, get_order(MISALIGNED_BUFFER_SIZE));
 	if (!page) {
 		pr_warn("Can't alloc pages to measure memcpy performance");
-		return;
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	/* Make an unaligned destination buffer. */
@@ -643,15 +647,29 @@ void check_unaligned_access(int cpu)
 
 out:
 	__free_pages(page, get_order(MISALIGNED_BUFFER_SIZE));
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void check_unaligned_access_nonboot_cpu(void *param)
+{
+	if (smp_processor_id() != 0)
+		check_unaligned_access(param);
 }
 
-static int check_unaligned_access_boot_cpu(void)
+static int check_unaligned_access_all_cpus(void)
 {
-	check_unaligned_access(0);
+	/* Check everybody except 0, who stays behind to tend jiffies. */
+	on_each_cpu(check_unaligned_access_nonboot_cpu, NULL, 1);
+
+	/* Check core 0. */
+	smp_call_on_cpu(0, check_unaligned_access, NULL, true);
+
+	/* Boot-time measurements are complete. */
+	misaligned_speed_measured = true;
 	return 0;
 }
 
-arch_initcall(check_unaligned_access_boot_cpu);
+arch_initcall(check_unaligned_access_all_cpus);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE
 /*
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
index 1b8da4e40a4d..39322ae20a75 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include <asm/cpu_ops.h>
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+#include <asm/hwprobe.h>
 #include <asm/irq.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/numa.h>
@@ -246,7 +247,15 @@ asmlinkage __visible void smp_callin(void)
 
 	numa_add_cpu(curr_cpuid);
 	set_cpu_online(curr_cpuid, 1);
-	check_unaligned_access(curr_cpuid);
+
+	/*
+	 * Boot-time misaligned access speed measurements are done in parallel
+	 * in an initcall. Only measure here for hotplug.
+	 */
+	if (misaligned_speed_measured &&
+	    (per_cpu(misaligned_access_speed, curr_cpuid) == RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN)) {
+		check_unaligned_access(NULL);
+	}
 
 	if (has_vector()) {
 		if (riscv_v_setup_vsize())
-- 
2.34.1


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