Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] arm64/runtime-const: Introduce runtime_const_mask_32()

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 09:47:25AM +0000, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> Futex hash computation requires a mask operation with read-only after
> init data that will be converted to a runtime constant in the subsequent
> commit.
> 
> Introduce runtime_const_mask_32 to further optimize the mask operation
> in the futex hash computation hot path. GCC generates a:
> 
>   movz  w1, #lo16, lsl #0     // w1 = bits [15:0]
>   movk  w1, #hi16, lsl #16    // w1 = full 32-bit value
>   and   w0, w0, w1	      // w0 = w0 & w1
> 
> pattern to tackle arbitrary 32-bit masks and the same was also suggested
> by Claude which is implemented here. The final (__ret & mask) operation
> is intentiaonally placed outside of asm block to allow compilers to
> further optimize it if possible.
> 
> __runtime_fixup_ptr() already patches a "movz, + movk lsl #16" sequence
> which has been reused to patch the same sequence for
> __runtime_fixup_mask().
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
> Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>