From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>, Qingfang DENG <dqfext@gmail.com>, Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] riscv: introduce RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2023 12:42:06 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20231225044207.3821-2-jszhang@kernel.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20231225044207.3821-1-jszhang@kernel.org> Some riscv implementations such as T-HEAD's C906, C908, C910 and C920 support efficient unaligned access, for performance reason we want to enable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on these platforms. To avoid performance regressions on other non efficient unaligned access platforms, HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS can't be globally selected. To solve this problem, runtime code patching based on the detected speed is a good solution. But that's not easy, it involves lots of work to modify vairous subsystems such as net, mm, lib and so on. This can be done step by step. So let's take an easier solution: add support to efficient unaligned access and hide the support under NONPORTABLE. Now let's introduce RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS which depends on NONPORTABLE, if users know during config time that the kernel will be only run on those efficient unaligned access hw platforms, they can enable it. Obviously, generic unified kernel Image shouldn't enable it. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> --- arch/riscv/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++ arch/riscv/Makefile | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig index 24c1799e2ec4..afcc5fdc16f7 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig @@ -651,6 +651,19 @@ config RISCV_MISALIGNED load/store for both kernel and userspace. When disable, misaligned accesses will generate SIGBUS in userspace and panic in kernel. +config RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS + bool "Assume the CPU supports fast unaligned memory accesses" + depends on NONPORTABLE + select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS + help + Say Y here if you want the kernel to assume that the CPU supports + efficient unaligned memory accesses. When enabled, this option + improves the performance of the kernel on such CPUs. However, the + kernel will run much more slowly, or will not be able to run at all, + on CPUs that do not support efficient unaligned memory accesses. + + If unsure what to do here, say N. + endmenu # "Platform type" menu "Kernel features" diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile index a74be78678eb..ebbe02628a27 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile @@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) # unaligned accesses. While unaligned accesses are explicitly allowed in the # RISC-V ISA, they're emulated by machine mode traps on all extant # architectures. It's faster to have GCC emit only aligned accesses. +ifneq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mstrict-align) +endif ifeq ($(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK),y) prepare: stack_protector_prepare -- 2.40.0
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From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>, Qingfang DENG <dqfext@gmail.com>, Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] riscv: introduce RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2023 12:42:06 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20231225044207.3821-2-jszhang@kernel.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20231225044207.3821-1-jszhang@kernel.org> Some riscv implementations such as T-HEAD's C906, C908, C910 and C920 support efficient unaligned access, for performance reason we want to enable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on these platforms. To avoid performance regressions on other non efficient unaligned access platforms, HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS can't be globally selected. To solve this problem, runtime code patching based on the detected speed is a good solution. But that's not easy, it involves lots of work to modify vairous subsystems such as net, mm, lib and so on. This can be done step by step. So let's take an easier solution: add support to efficient unaligned access and hide the support under NONPORTABLE. Now let's introduce RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS which depends on NONPORTABLE, if users know during config time that the kernel will be only run on those efficient unaligned access hw platforms, they can enable it. Obviously, generic unified kernel Image shouldn't enable it. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> --- arch/riscv/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++ arch/riscv/Makefile | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig index 24c1799e2ec4..afcc5fdc16f7 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig @@ -651,6 +651,19 @@ config RISCV_MISALIGNED load/store for both kernel and userspace. When disable, misaligned accesses will generate SIGBUS in userspace and panic in kernel. +config RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS + bool "Assume the CPU supports fast unaligned memory accesses" + depends on NONPORTABLE + select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS + help + Say Y here if you want the kernel to assume that the CPU supports + efficient unaligned memory accesses. When enabled, this option + improves the performance of the kernel on such CPUs. However, the + kernel will run much more slowly, or will not be able to run at all, + on CPUs that do not support efficient unaligned memory accesses. + + If unsure what to do here, say N. + endmenu # "Platform type" menu "Kernel features" diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile index a74be78678eb..ebbe02628a27 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile @@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) # unaligned accesses. While unaligned accesses are explicitly allowed in the # RISC-V ISA, they're emulated by machine mode traps on all extant # architectures. It's faster to have GCC emit only aligned accesses. +ifneq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mstrict-align) +endif ifeq ($(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK),y) prepare: stack_protector_prepare -- 2.40.0 _______________________________________________ linux-riscv mailing list linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-25 4:54 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2023-12-25 4:42 [PATCH v4 0/2] riscv: enable EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS and DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS Jisheng Zhang 2023-12-25 4:42 ` Jisheng Zhang 2023-12-25 4:42 ` Jisheng Zhang [this message] 2023-12-25 4:42 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] riscv: introduce RISCV_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Jisheng Zhang 2023-12-27 4:22 ` Eric Biggers 2023-12-27 4:22 ` Eric Biggers 2023-12-27 10:41 ` David Laight 2023-12-27 10:41 ` David Laight 2023-12-25 4:42 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] riscv: select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS for efficient unaligned access HW Jisheng Zhang 2023-12-25 4:42 ` Jisheng Zhang 2024-01-11 14:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] riscv: enable EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS and DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS patchwork-bot+linux-riscv 2024-01-11 14:50 ` patchwork-bot+linux-riscv
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