From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C10BC54FD0 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01FC4206D4 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lists.infradead.org header.i=@lists.infradead.org header.b="YiqQZM0l" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 01FC4206D4 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=De7v4TsDl8XmpGKPZenTVvulahZhZj2+/HDSRI0KXrs=; b=YiqQZM0lGl4U12 oa0r6YLQXDF65ddoZpNLT0mMOOOGcn3chbPBrpMTOfQBAoNcOUkcHgcsWLpve9A/xDtQoHeqpMKE5 ZfU7t0ACqp4ksSNVk8n5msvdEjHLMHS5rgoKGHD32ggGJH7ooEHHvxvlpDMG3ndbai0Md3m5tK0ML jVrZtBPRAmxvhmn3TGYkLAMxGIJl4Rws6umlzQ7/RfDqrm3oOQv5c5srBl1aEE2ggW3xDofG5b+yF LYMoLGzDV2wLw2XcFJwYyEjD8kq1DckDUQY/LGVcrFlJTxbODUGFoc2DgJ3Tu56y3wlNdEnty3QXi VXn78Pp7U4e/nMLStlaQ==; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jT74j-0003tw-SU; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:57:45 +0000 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jT74g-0003so-Un for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:57:44 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0028131B; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AF013F68F; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:57:37 +0100 From: Dave Martin To: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/23] arm64: alternative: Allow alternative_insn to always issue the first instruction Message-ID: <20200427165737.GD15808@arm.com> References: <20200421142603.3894-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <20200421142603.3894-2-catalin.marinas@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200421142603.3894-2-catalin.marinas@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20200427_095743_032650_9A1EB266 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 19.76 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Richard Earnshaw , Will Deacon , Szabolcs Nagy , Andrey Konovalov , Kevin Brodsky , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vincenzo Frascino , Peter Collingbourne , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:25:41PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > There are situations where we do not want to disable the whole block > based on a config option, only the alternative part while keeping the > first instruction. Improve the alternative_insn assembler macro to take > a 'first_insn' argument, default 0, to preserve the current behaviour. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas > Cc: Will Deacon > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h > index 5e5dc05d63a0..67d7cc608336 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h > @@ -111,7 +111,11 @@ static inline void apply_alternatives_module(void *start, size_t length) { } > .byte \alt_len > .endm > > -.macro alternative_insn insn1, insn2, cap, enable = 1 > +/* > + * Disable the whole block if enable == 0, unless first_insn == 1 in which > + * case insn1 will always be issued but without an alternative insn2. > + */ > +.macro alternative_insn insn1, insn2, cap, enable = 1, first_insn = 0 > .if \enable > 661: \insn1 > 662: .pushsection .altinstructions, "a" > @@ -122,6 +126,8 @@ static inline void apply_alternatives_module(void *start, size_t length) { } > 664: .popsection > .org . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b) > .org . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b) > + .elseif \first_insn > + \insn1 This becomes quite unreadable at the invocation site, especially when invoked as "alternative_insn ..., 1". "... first_insn=1" is not much better either). I'm struggling to find non-trivial users of this that actually want the whole block to be deleted dependent on the config. Can we instead just always behave as if first_insn=1 instead? This this works intuitively as an alternative, not the current weird 3-way choice between insn1, insn2 and nothing at all. The only time that makes sense is when one of the insns is a branch that skips the block, but that's handled via the alternative_if macros instead. Behaving always like first_insn=1 provides an if-else that is statically optimised if the relevant feature is configured out, which I think is the only thing people are ever going to want. Maybe something depends on the current behaviour, but I can't see it so far... [...] Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel