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: Mark 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: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210151410.2782645-5-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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