linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 0/6] RISC-V: Detect and report speed of unaligned vector accesses

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Message-ID: <Zu3illShBOscs+zN@ghost>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:01:10 +0200
From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@...osinc.com>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/6] RISC-V: Detect and report speed of unaligned
 vector accesses

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 05:57:22AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:24:18 PDT (-0700), jesse@...osinc.com wrote:
> > Adds support for detecting and reporting the speed of unaligned vector
> > accesses on RISC-V CPUs. Adds vec_misaligned_speed key to the hwprobe
> > adds Zicclsm to cpufeature and fixes the check for scalar unaligned
> > emulated all CPUs. The vec_misaligned_speed key keeps the same format
> > as the scalar unaligned access speed key.
> > 
> > This set does not emulate unaligned vector accesses on CPUs that do not
> > support them. Only reports if userspace can run them and speed of
> > unaligned vector accesses if supported.
> > 
> > The Zicclsm is patches are no longer related to this set.
> > 
> > Changes in v6:
> >  Added ("RISC-V: Scalar unaligned access emulated on hotplug CPUs")
> > 
> > Changes in V8:
> >  Dropped Zicclsm
> >  s/RISCV_HWPROBE_VECTOR_MISALIGNED/RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_VECTOR/g
> >   to match RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SCALAR_*
> >  Rebased onto palmer/fixes (32d5f7add080a936e28ab4142bfeea6b06999789)
> > 
> > Changes in V9:
> >  Missed a RISCV_HWPROBE_VECTOR_MISALIGNED...
> > 
> > Jesse Taube (6):
> >   RISC-V: Check scalar unaligned access on all CPUs
> >   RISC-V: Scalar unaligned access emulated on hotplug CPUs
> >   RISC-V: Replace RISCV_MISALIGNED with RISCV_SCALAR_MISALIGNED
> >   RISC-V: Detect unaligned vector accesses supported
> >   RISC-V: Report vector unaligned access speed hwprobe
> >   RISC-V: hwprobe: Document unaligned vector perf key
> > 
> >  Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst       |  16 +++
> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig                         |  57 +++++++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h        |  10 +-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/entry-common.h      |  11 --
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/hwprobe.h           |   2 +-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h            |   2 +
> >  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h      |   5 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                 |   3 +-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/copy-unaligned.h         |   5 +
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/fpu.S                    |   4 +-
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c            |  41 ++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c       | 131 +++++++++++++++--
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c | 156 +++++++++++++++++++--
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/vec-copy-unaligned.S     |  58 ++++++++
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/vector.c                 |   2 +-
> >  15 files changed, 465 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/vec-copy-unaligned.S
> > 
> > base-commit: 32d5f7add080a936e28ab4142bfeea6b06999789
> 
> I get a
> 
> arch/riscv/kernel/traps_smisaligned.c: In function 'check_vector_unaligned_access_emulated':
> arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c:591:9: error: unknown register name 'v0' in 'asm'
>  591 |         __asm__ __volatile__ (
>      |         ^~~~~~~
> 
> on rv32/defconfig.  Looks like just a missing Kconfg guard as this depends
> on V support in the toolchain.

There was an interesting iteraction here!
RISCV_PROBE_VECTOR_UNALIGNED_ACCESS was selecting
RISCV_VECTOR_MISALIGNED but that bypasses the depends on check of
RISCV_ISA_V. I'll send an update for Jesse with the fix for that one
patch.

- Charlie