Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> says:
This change detects the presence of Zba, Zbb, and Zbs extensions and exports
them per-hart to userspace via the hwprobe mechanism. Glibc can then use
these in setting up hwcaps-based library search paths.
There's a little bit of extra housekeeping here: the first change adds
Zba and Zbs to the set of extensions the kernel recognizes, and the second
change starts tracking ISA features per-hart (in addition to the ANDed
mask of features across all harts which the kernel uses to make
decisions). Now that we track the ISA information per-hart, we could
even fix up /proc/cpuinfo to accurately report extension per-hart,
though I've left that out of this series for now.
* b4-shazam-merge:
RISC-V: hwprobe: Expose Zba, Zbb, and Zbs
RISC-V: Track ISA extensions per hart
RISC-V: Add Zba, Zbs extension probing
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509182504.2997252-1-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
This allows userspace to select various routines to use based on the
performance of misaligned access on the target hardware.
Rather than adding DT bindings, this change taps into the alternatives
mechanism used to probe CPU errata. Add a new function pointer alongside
the vendor-specific errata_patch_func() that probes for desirable errata
(otherwise known as "features"). Unlike the errata_patch_func(), this
function is called on each CPU as it comes up, so it can save
feature information per-CPU.
The T-head C906 has fast unaligned access, both as defined by GCC [1],
and in performing a basic benchmark, which determined that byte copies
are >50% slower than a misaligned word copy of the same data size (source
for this test at [2]):
bytecopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 31664899 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 0 took 5180919 us
wordcopy size f000 count 50000 offset 1 took 13416949 us
[1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/riscv/riscv.cc#L353
[2] https://pastebin.com/EPXvDHSW
Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-5-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
