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Date:   Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:55:37 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Akira Tsukamoto' <akira.tsukamoto@...il.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/5] riscv: __asm_to/copy_from_user: Bulk copy when both
 src, dst are aligned

From: Akira Tsukamoto
> Sent: 19 June 2021 12:43
> 
> In the lucky situation that the both source and destination address are on
> the aligned boundary, perform load and store with register size to copy the
> data.
> 
> Without the unrolling, it will reduce the speed since the next store
> instruction for the same register using from the load will stall the
> pipeline.
...
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> index e2e57551fc76..bceb0629e440 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> @@ -67,6 +67,39 @@ ENTRY(__asm_copy_from_user)
>  	bnez	a3, .Lshift_copy
> 
>  .Lword_copy:
> +        /*
> +	 * Both src and dst are aligned, unrolled word copy
> +	 *
> +	 * a0 - start of aligned dst
> +	 * a1 - start of aligned src
> +	 * a3 - a1 & mask:(SZREG-1)
> +	 * t0 - end of aligned dst
> +	 */
> +	addi	t0, t0, -(8*SZREG-1) /* not to over run */
> +2:
> +	fixup REG_L   a4,        0(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   a5,    SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   a6,  2*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   a7,  3*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   t1,  4*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   t2,  5*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   t3,  6*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_L   t4,  7*SZREG(a1), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   a4,        0(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   a5,    SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   a6,  2*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   a7,  3*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   t1,  4*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   t2,  5*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   t3,  6*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	fixup REG_S   t4,  7*SZREG(a0), 10f
> +	addi	a0, a0, 8*SZREG
> +	addi	a1, a1, 8*SZREG
> +	bltu	a0, t0, 2b
> +
> +	addi	t0, t0, 8*SZREG-1 /* revert to original value */
> +	j	.Lbyte_copy_tail
> +

Are there any riscv chips than can do a memory read and a
memory write int the same cycle but don't have significant
'out of order' execution?

Such chips will execute that code very badly.
Or, rather, there are loops that allow concurrent read+write
that will be a lot faster.

Also on a cpu that can execute a memory read/write
at the same time as an add (probably anything supercaler)
you want to move the two 'addi' further up so they get
executed 'for free'.

	David

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