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Message-ID: <aMk1qxS3htyaTgEQ@e129823.arm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:02:19 +0100
From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@....com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, broonie@...nel.org, maz@...nel.org,
	oliver.upton@...ux.dev, joey.gouly@....com, james.morse@....com,
	ardb@...nel.org, scott@...amperecomputing.com,
	suzuki.poulose@....com, yuzenghui@...wei.com, mark.rutland@....com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 4/6] arm64: futex: refactor futex atomic
 operation

Hi,
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 09:35:55PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 08:40:33PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:32:39AM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> > > > So I think it would be better to keep the current LLSC implementation
> > > > in LSUI.
> > >
> > > I think the code would look simpler with LL/SC but you can give it a try
> > > and post the code sample here (not in a new series).
> >
> > If you stick the cas*t instruction in its own helper say, cmpxchg_user(),
> > then you can do all the shifting/masking in C and I don't reckon it's
> > that bad. It means we (a) get rid of exclusives, which is the whole
> > point of this and (b) don't have to mess around with PAN.
>
> We get rid of PAN toggling already since FEAT_LSUI introduces
> LDTXR/STTXR. But, I'm all for CAS if it doesn't look too bad. Easier
> I think if we do a get_user() of a u64 and combine it with the futex u32
> while taking care of CPU endianness. All in a loop. Hopefully the
> compiler is smart enough to reduce masking/or'ing to fewer instructions.
>

Sorry for my wrong previous email.

Here is what i intened with CAS operation:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
index 1d6d9f856ac5..0aeda7ced2c0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -126,6 +126,60 @@ LSUI_FUTEX_ATOMIC_OP(or, ldtset, al)
 LSUI_FUTEX_ATOMIC_OP(andnot, ldtclr, al)
 LSUI_FUTEX_ATOMIC_OP(set, swpt, al)

+
+#define LSUI_CMPXCHG_HELPER(suffix, start_bit)                                 \
+static __always_inline int                                                     \
+__lsui_cmpxchg_helper_##suffix(u64 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, u32 newval)      \
+{                                                                              \
+       int ret = 0;                                                            \
+       u64 oval, nval, tmp;                                                    \
+                                                                               \
+       asm volatile("//__lsui_cmpxchg_helper_" #suffix "\n"                    \
+       __LSUI_PREAMBLE                                                         \
+"      prfm    pstl1strm, %2\n"                                                \
+"1:    ldtr    %x1, %2\n"                                                      \
+"      mov     %x3, %x1\n"                                                     \
+"      bfi     %x1, %x5, #" #start_bit ", #32\n"                               \
+"      bfi     %x3, %x6, #" #start_bit ", #32\n"                               \
+"      mov     %x4, %x1\n"                                                     \
+"2:    caslt   %x1, %x3, %2\n"                                                 \
+"      sub     %x1, %x1, %x4\n"                                                \
+"      cbz     %x1, 3f\n"                                                      \
+"      mov     %w0, %w7\n"                                                     \
+"3:\n"                                                                         \
+"      dmb     ish\n"                                                          \
+"4:\n"                                                                         \
+       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(1b, 4b, %w0)                                   \
+       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(2b, 4b, %w0)                                   \
+       : "+r" (ret), "=&r" (oval), "+Q" (*uaddr), "=&r" (nval), "=&r" (tmp)    \
+       : "r" (oldval), "r" (newval), "Ir" (-EAGAIN)                            \
+       : "memory");                                                            \
+                                                                               \
+       return ret;                                                             \
+}
+
+LSUI_CMPXCHG_HELPER(lo, 0)
+LSUI_CMPXCHG_HELPER(hi, 32)
+
+static __always_inline int
+__lsui_cmpxchg_helper(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, u32 newval, u32 *oval)
+{
+       int ret;
+       unsigned long uaddr_al;
+
+       uaddr_al = ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)uaddr, sizeof(u64));
+
+       if (uaddr_al != (unsigned long)uaddr)
+               ret = __lsui_cmpxchg_helper_hi((u64 __user *)uaddr_al, oldval, newval);
+       else
+               ret = __lsui_cmpxchg_helper_lo((u64 __user *)uaddr_al, oldval, newval);
+
+       if (!ret)
+               *oval = oldval;
+
+       return ret;
+}
+
 static __always_inline int
 __lsui_futex_atomic_and(int oparg, u32 __user *uaddr, int *oval)
 {
@@ -135,71 +189,25 @@ __lsui_futex_atomic_and(int oparg, u32 __user *uaddr, int *oval)
 static __always_inline int
 __lsui_futex_atomic_eor(int oparg, u32 __user *uaddr, int *oval)
 {
-       unsigned int loops = FUTEX_MAX_LOOPS;
-       int ret, oldval, tmp;
+       int ret = -EAGAIN;
+       u32 oldval, newval;

        /*
         * there are no ldteor/stteor instructions...
         */
-       asm volatile("// __lsui_futex_atomic_eor\n"
-       __LSUI_PREAMBLE
-"      prfm    pstl1strm, %2\n"
-"1:    ldtxr   %w1, %2\n"
-"      eor     %w3, %w1, %w5\n"
-"2:    stltxr  %w0, %w3, %2\n"
-"      cbz     %w0, 3f\n"
-"      sub     %w4, %w4, %w0\n"
-"      cbnz    %w4, 1b\n"
-"      mov     %w0, %w6\n"
-"3:\n"
-"      dmb     ish\n"
-       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(1b, 3b, %w0)
-       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(2b, 3b, %w0)
-       : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (oldval), "+Q" (*uaddr), "=&r" (tmp),
-         "+r" (loops)
-       : "r" (oparg), "Ir" (-EAGAIN)
-       : "memory");
+       unsafe_get_user(oldval, uaddr, err_fault);
+       newval = oldval ^ oparg;

-       if (!ret)
-               *oval = oldval;
+       ret = __lsui_cmpxchg_helper(uaddr, oldval, newval, oval);

+err_fault:
        return ret;
 }

 static __always_inline int
 __lsui_futex_cmpxchg(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 oldval, u32 newval, u32 *oval)
 {
-       int ret = 0;
-       unsigned int loops = FUTEX_MAX_LOOPS;
-       u32 val, tmp;
-
-       /*
-        * cas{al}t doesn't support word size...
-        */
-       asm volatile("//__lsui_futex_cmpxchg\n"
-       __LSUI_PREAMBLE
-"      prfm    pstl1strm, %2\n"
-"1:    ldtxr   %w1, %2\n"
-"      eor     %w3, %w1, %w5\n"
-"      cbnz    %w3, 4f\n"
-"2:    stltxr  %w3, %w6, %2\n"
-"      cbz     %w3, 3f\n"
-"      sub     %w4, %w4, %w3\n"
-"      cbnz    %w4, 1b\n"
-"      mov     %w0, %w7\n"
-"3:\n"
-"      dmb     ish\n"
-"4:\n"
-       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(1b, 4b, %w0)
-       _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(2b, 4b, %w0)
-       : "+r" (ret), "=&r" (val), "+Q" (*uaddr), "=&r" (tmp), "+r" (loops)
-       : "r" (oldval), "r" (newval), "Ir" (-EAGAIN)
-       : "memory");
-
-       if (!ret)
-               *oval = oldval;
-
-       return ret;
+       return __lsui_cmpxchg_helper(uaddr, oldval, newval, oval);
 }

 #define __lsui_llsc_body(op, ...)                                      \
(END)

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

--
Sincerely,
Yeoreum Yun

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