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MIPS: Take in account load hazards for HI/LO restoring

PATCH Superseded Siarhei Volkau 2 participants 4 messages Oct 12, 2023 – Apr 29, 2024 MIPS

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PATCH 1/1 MIPS: Take in account load hazards for HI/LO restoring

MIPS CPUs usually have 1 to 4 cycles load hazards, thus doing load and right after move to HI/LO will usually stall the pipeline for significant amount of time. Let's take it into account and separate loads and mthi/lo in instruction sequence.

The patch uses t6 and t7 registers as temporaries in addition to t8.

The patch tries to deal with SmartMIPS, but I know little about and haven't tested it.

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +12 -10
index a8705aef47e1..3821d91b00fd 100644
@@ -308,17 +308,11 @@
 		jal	octeon_mult_restore
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_ACX(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_HI(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_LO(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+		LONG_L	$14, PT_ACX(sp)
+#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS) || !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
 		LONG_L	$24, PT_LO(sp)
-		mtlo	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_HI(sp)
-		mthi	$24
+		LONG_L	$15, PT_HI(sp)
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_32BIT
 		cfi_ld	$8, PT_R8, \docfi
@@ -327,6 +321,14 @@
 		cfi_ld	$10, PT_R10, \docfi
 		cfi_ld	$11, PT_R11, \docfi
 		cfi_ld	$12, PT_R12, \docfi
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
+		mtlhx	$14
+		mtlhx	$15
+		mtlhx	$24
+#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+		mtlo	$24
+		mthi	$15
+#endif
 		cfi_ld	$13, PT_R13, \docfi
 		cfi_ld	$14, PT_R14, \docfi
 		cfi_ld	$15, PT_R15, \docfi
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#1 lore raw

Ping. The patch looks abandoned.

Paul, could you recommend right persons / lists for that ?

чт, 12 окт. 2023 г. в 19:21, Siarhei Volkau <[email protected]>:

Quoted 60 lines

MIPS CPUs usually have 1 to 4 cycles load hazards, thus doing load and right after move to HI/LO will usually stall the pipeline for significant amount of time. Let's take it into account and separate loads and mthi/lo in instruction sequence.

The patch uses t6 and t7 registers as temporaries in addition to t8.

The patch tries to deal with SmartMIPS, but I know little about and haven't tested it.

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +12 -11
index a8705aef47e1..3821d91b00fd 100644
@@ -308,17 +308,11 @@
                jal     octeon_mult_restore
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
-               LONG_L  $24, PT_ACX(sp)
-               mtlhx   $24
-               LONG_L  $24, PT_HI(sp)
-               mtlhx   $24
-               LONG_L  $24, PT_LO(sp)
-               mtlhx   $24
-#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+               LONG_L  $14, PT_ACX(sp)
+#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS) || !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
                LONG_L  $24, PT_LO(sp)
-               mtlo    $24
-               LONG_L  $24, PT_HI(sp)
-               mthi    $24
+               LONG_L  $15, PT_HI(sp)
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_32BIT
                cfi_ld  $8, PT_R8, \docfi
@@ -327,6 +321,14 @@
                cfi_ld  $10, PT_R10, \docfi
                cfi_ld  $11, PT_R11, \docfi
                cfi_ld  $12, PT_R12, \docfi
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
+               mtlhx   $14
+               mtlhx   $15
+               mtlhx   $24
+#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+               mtlo    $24
+               mthi    $15
+#endif
                cfi_ld  $13, PT_R13, \docfi
                cfi_ld  $14, PT_R14, \docfi
                cfi_ld  $15, PT_R15, \docfi
--

2.41.0

#2 lore raw
In reply to Siarhei Volkau
Quoted 23 lines · Siarhei Volkau

MIPS CPUs usually have 1 to 4 cycles load hazards, thus doing load and right after move to HI/LO will usually stall the pipeline for significant amount of time. Let's take it into account and separate loads and mthi/lo in instruction sequence.

The patch uses t6 and t7 registers as temporaries in addition to t8.

The patch tries to deal with SmartMIPS, but I know little about and haven't tested it.

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +0 -0
index a8705aef47e1..3821d91b00fd 100644
@@ -308,17 +308,11 @@
 		jal	octeon_mult_restore
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS

arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h line 313

Quoted 10 lines
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +3 -7
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_ACX(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_HI(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_LO(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+		LONG_L	$14, PT_ACX(sp)
+#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS) || !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)

isn't that just #ifndef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6 ?

Thomas.

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#3 lore raw
Quoted 28 lines · Thomas Bogendoerfer
Quoted 27 lines · Siarhei Volkau

MIPS CPUs usually have 1 to 4 cycles load hazards, thus doing load and right after move to HI/LO will usually stall the pipeline for significant amount of time. Let's take it into account and separate loads and mthi/lo in instruction sequence.

The patch uses t6 and t7 registers as temporaries in addition to t8.

The patch tries to deal with SmartMIPS, but I know little about and haven't tested it.

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +0 -4
index a8705aef47e1..3821d91b00fd 100644
@@ -308,17 +308,11 @@
 		jal	octeon_mult_restore
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_ACX(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_HI(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
Quoted 8 lines

arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h line 313

Quoted 6 lines
arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +3 -3
-		LONG_L	$24, PT_LO(sp)
-		mtlhx	$24
-#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
+		LONG_L	$14, PT_ACX(sp)
+#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS) || !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)

isn't that just #ifndef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6 ?

and if yes, I prefer to have the same structure as for the move to registers later like

#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
.. do the SMARTMIPS things
elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
.. do normal hi/lo
#endif

that way it's more clear whats happening depending on selected options.

Thomas.

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Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]