Detect if vector misaligned accesses are faster or slower than
equivalent vector byte accesses. This is useful for usermode to know
whether vector byte accesses or vector misaligned accesses have a better
bandwidth for operations like memcpy.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017-jesse_unaligned_vector-v10-5-5b33500160f8@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Run an unaligned vector access to test if the system supports
vector unaligned access. Add the result to a new key in hwprobe.
This is useful for usermode to know if vector misaligned accesses are
supported and if they are faster or slower than equivalent byte accesses.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017-jesse_unaligned_vector-v10-4-5b33500160f8@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
The check_unaligned_access_emulated() function should have been called
during CPU hotplug to ensure that if all CPUs had emulated unaligned
accesses, the new CPU also does.
This patch adds the call to check_unaligned_access_emulated() in
the hotplug path.
Fixes: 55e0bf49a0 ("RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel")
Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017-jesse_unaligned_vector-v10-2-5b33500160f8@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
In preparation for misaligned vector performance hwprobe keys, rename
the hwprobe key values associated with misaligned scalar accesses to
include the term SCALAR. Leave the old defines in place to maintain
source compatibility.
This change is intended to be a functional no-op.
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809214444.3257596-3-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.
So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
count * size in the kzalloc() function.
Also, it is preferred to use sizeof(*pointer) instead of sizeof(type)
due to the type of the variable can change and one needs not change the
former (unlike the latter).
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240120135400.4710-1-erick.archer@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Introduce Kconfig options to set the kernel unaligned access support.
These options provide a non-portable alternative to the runtime
unaligned access probe.
To support this, the unaligned access probing code is moved into it's
own file and gated behind a new RISCV_PROBE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT
option.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308-disable_misaligned_probe_config-v9-4-a388770ba0ce@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
