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Commit 8a578a75 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: atomics: lse: improve constraints for simple ops



We have overly conservative assembly constraints for the basic FEAT_LSE
atomic instructions, and using more accurate and permissive constraints
will allow for better code generation.

The FEAT_LSE basic atomic instructions have come in two forms:

	LD{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, <Rt>, [<Rn>]
	ST{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, [<Rn>]

The ST* forms are aliases of the LD* forms where:

	ST{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, [<Rn>]
Is:
	LD{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, XZR, [<Rn>]

For either form, both <Rs> and <Rn> are read but not written back to,
and <Rt> is written with the original value of the memory location.
Where (<Rt> == <Rs>) or (<Rt> == <Rn>), <Rt> is written *after* the
other register value(s) are consumed. There are no UNPREDICTABLE or
CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviours when any pair of <Rs>, <Rt>, or
<Rn> are the same register.

Our current inline assembly always uses <Rs> == <Rt>, treating this
register as both an input and an output (using a '+r' constraint). This
forces the compiler to do some unnecessary register shuffling and/or
redundant value generation.

For example, the compiler cannot reuse the <Rs> value, and currently GCC
11.1.0 will compile:

	__lse_atomic_add(1, a);
	__lse_atomic_add(1, b);
	__lse_atomic_add(1, c);

As:

	mov     w3, #0x1
	mov     w4, w3
	stadd   w4, [x0]
	mov     w0, w3
	stadd   w0, [x1]
	stadd   w3, [x2]

We can improve this with more accurate constraints, separating <Rs> and
<Rt>, where <Rs> is an input-only register ('r'), and <Rt> is an
output-only value ('=r'). As <Rt> is written back after <Rs> is
consumed, it does not need to be earlyclobber ('=&r'), leaving the
compiler free to use the same register for both <Rs> and <Rt> where this
is desirable.

At the same time, the redundant 'r' constraint for `v` is removed, as
the `+Q` constraint is sufficient.

With this change, the above example becomes:

	mov     w3, #0x1
	stadd   w3, [x0]
	stadd   w3, [x1]
	stadd   w3, [x2]

I've made this change for the non-value-returning and FETCH ops. The
RETURN ops have a multi-instruction sequence for which we cannot use the
same constraints, and a subsequent patch will rewrite hte RETURN ops in
terms of the FETCH ops, relying on the ability for the compiler to reuse
the <Rs> value.

This is intended as an optimization.
There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210151410.2782645-5-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 5e9e43c9
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