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The kernel maintains a mask of ISA extensions ANDed together across all
harts. Let's also keep a bitmap of ISA extensions for each CPU. Although
the kernel is currently unlikely to enable a feature that exists only on
some CPUs, we want the ability to report asymmetric CPU extensions
accurately to usermode.
Note that riscv_fill_hwcaps() runs before the per_cpu_offsets are built,
which is why I've used a [NR_CPUS] array rather than per_cpu() data.
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509182504.2997252-3-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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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>
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In preparation for tracking and exposing microarchitectural details to
userspace (like whether or not unaligned accesses are fast), move the
riscv_cpuinfo struct out to its own new cpufeatures.h header. It will
need to be used by more than just cpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407231103.2622178-2-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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