From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: ryan.roberts@arm.com, usama.anjum@arm.com, peterz@infradead.org,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, david.laight.linux@gmail.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, ruanjinjie@huawei.com,
james.morse@arm.com, yang@os.amperecomputing.com, cl@gentwo.org,
maz@kernel.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org,
will@kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/21] arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:18:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f2fe813-b6ae-461c-9a95-5cf62c087cc6@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908151741.394589-4-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On 9/8/26 16:17, Mark Rutland wrote:
> The assembly for __percpu_##name##_case_##sz() and
> __percpu_##name##_return_case_##sz() doesn't use the 'sfx' macro
> argument to form the LSE instruction. Without 'sfx', a W register
> argument will imply a 32-bit memory location, and consequently
> {8,16}-bit ops will erroneously read and write 32 bits of memory when
> the LSE instruction is used.
>
> Fix this by appending 'sfx' to 'op_lse' to LSE instruction. It is not
> necessary (and not valid) to append 'sfx' to 'op_llsc', as 'op_llsc' is
> a register-register operation which does not access memory (and does not
> take a size suffix).
>
> Test case:
>
> | void outline_this_cpu_add_u8(u8 __percpu *p, u8 v)
> | {
> | this_cpu_add(*p, v);
> | }
>
> Generated inline code (same before and after this patch):
>
> | <outline_this_cpu_add_u8>:
> | paciasp
> | stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!
> | mrs x2, sp_el0
> | mov x29, sp
> | ldr w3, [x2, #8]
> | add w3, w3, #0x1
> | str w3, [x2, #8]
> | mrs x3, tpidr_el1
> | add x0, x0, x3
> | 1: ldxrb w5, [x0] // <----------------
> | add w5, w5, w1 // LL/SC alternative
> | stxrb w4, w5, [x0] // instructions here
> | cbnz w4, 1b // <----------------
> | ldr x0, [x2, #8]
> | sub x0, x0, #0x1
> | str w0, [x2, #8]
> | cbz x0, 2f
> | ldr x0, [x2, #8]
> | cbnz x0, 3f
> | 2: bl preempt_schedule_notrace
> | 3: ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16
> | autiasp
> | ret
>
> Generated LSE alternative before this patch:
>
> | ldadd w1, w5, [x0] // 32-bit LDADD
> | nop
> | nop
> | nop
>
> Generated LSE alternative after this patch:
>
> | ldaddb w1, w5, [x0] // 8-bit LDADDB
> | nop
> | nop
> | nop
>
> Fixes: 959bf2fd03b5 ("arm64: percpu: Rewrite per-cpu ops to allow use of LSE atomics")
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
> Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
> index 31193bcf89a2b..8cf4068ce1b56 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ __percpu_##name##_case_##sz(void *ptr, unsigned long val) \
> " stxr" #sfx "\t%w[loop], %" #w "[tmp], %[ptr]\n" \
> " cbnz %w[loop], 1b", \
> /* LSE atomics */ \
> - #op_lse "\t%" #w "[val], %" #w "[tmp], %[ptr]\n" \
> + #op_lse #sfx "\t%" #w "[val], %" #w "[tmp], %[ptr]\n" \
> __nops(3)) \
> : [loop] "=&r" (loop), [tmp] "=&r" (tmp), \
> [ptr] "+Q"(*(u##sz *)ptr) \
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ __percpu_##name##_return_case_##sz(void *ptr, unsigned long val) \
> " stxr" #sfx "\t%w[loop], %" #w "[ret], %[ptr]\n" \
> " cbnz %w[loop], 1b", \
> /* LSE atomics */ \
> - #op_lse "\t%" #w "[val], %" #w "[ret], %[ptr]\n" \
> + #op_lse #sfx "\t%" #w "[val], %" #w "[ret], %[ptr]\n" \
> #op_llsc "\t%" #w "[ret], %" #w "[ret], %" #w "[val]\n" \
> __nops(2)) \
> : [loop] "=&r" (loop), [ret] "=&r" (ret), \
> -- 2.30.2
>
FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 15:17 [PATCH v4 00/21] Preemptible this_cpu_*() operations Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_write() casting Mark Rutland
2026-09-10 10:56 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_and() mask generation Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] arm64: percpu: Fix LSE operations on {8,16}-bit types Mark Rutland
2026-09-10 15:18 ` Vladimir Murzin [this message]
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] arm64: cmpxchg: LL/SC: Avoid redundant extension Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 05/21] arm64: cmpxchg128: LSE: Remove redundant operands Mark Rutland
2026-09-10 10:06 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-11 11:43 ` Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] arm64: preempt: Simplify and optimize __preempt_count_dec_and_test() Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 07/21] arm64: preempt: Treat should_resched() as unlikely Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] arm64: ptrace: Always inline pt_regs_[read,write}_reg() Mark Rutland
2026-09-11 10:20 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] arm64: percpu: Factor out percpu offset asm Mark Rutland
2026-09-11 12:39 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] arm64: gpr-num: Add wxN aliases for wN registers Mark Rutland
2026-09-11 12:43 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] arm64: gpr-num: add __GPR_NUM() helper Mark Rutland
2026-09-10 14:24 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] arm64: entry: sdei: Restore all clobberable GPRs Mark Rutland
2026-09-11 12:47 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] arm64: entry: sdei: Make 'tsk' available Mark Rutland
2026-09-10 13:06 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] arm64: percpu: Add infrastructure for preemptible this_cpu_*() ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible read/write ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible void RMW ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 17/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible return " Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible XCHG ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG128 ops Mark Rutland
2026-09-08 15:17 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] arm64: percpu: Remove _pcp_protect*() wrappers Mark Rutland
2026-09-11 13:44 ` [PATCH v4 00/21] Preemptible this_cpu_*() operations Will Deacon
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