linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 0/5] riscv: uaccess: optimizations

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Message-Id: <20250318061514.1223111-1-cyrilbur@tenstorrent.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:15:09 +0000
From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...storrent.com>
To: palmer@...belt.com,
	aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
	paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
	charlie@...osinc.com,
	jrtc27@...c27.com,
	ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk,
	alex@...ti.fr
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jszhang@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/5] riscv: uaccess: optimizations

This series tries to optimize riscv uaccess by allowing the use of
user_access_begin() and user_access_end() which permits grouping user accesses
and avoiding the CSR write penalty for each access.

The error path can also be optimised using asm goto which patches 3 and 4
achieve. This will speed up jumping to labels by avoiding the need of an
intermediary error type variable within the uaccess macros

I did read the discussion this series generated. It isn't clear to me
which direction to take the patches, if any.

V2:
I've taken on this series as there isn't any response from Jisheng. No
significant changes other than build fixes.
- Fixes build breakage in patch 3 to do with not having used 'goto' keyword.
- Fixes build breakage in patch 4 on 32bit not having delcared __ptr in the
  macro.

V3:
Significant commit message rewrites.
 - Corrected the justification for patch 2
 - Better explained/justified patches 3 and 4
Minor code changes for legibility and more comments

V4:
Fixed checkpatch errors
Added a unsafe_copy_from_user()
Added patch from Ben Dooks to save SR_SUM bit on switch

Ben Dooks (1):
  riscv: save the SR_SUM status over switches

Jisheng Zhang (4):
  riscv: implement user_access_begin() and families
  riscv: uaccess: use input constraints for ptr of __put_user()
  riscv: uaccess: use 'asm goto' for put_user()
  riscv: uaccess: use 'asm_goto_output' for get_user()

 arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h |   1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h   | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c    |   5 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S          |   8 ++
 4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

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