From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
loongarch@lists.linux.dev,
Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 2/4] riscv: entry: Split ret_from_fork() into user and kernel
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:29:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250320-riscv_optimize_entry-v6-2-63e187e26041@rivosinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250320-riscv_optimize_entry-v6-0-63e187e26041@rivosinc.com>
This function was unified into a single function in commit ab9164dae273
("riscv: entry: Consolidate ret_from_kernel_thread into ret_from_fork").
However that imposed a performance degradation. Partially reverting this
commit to have ret_from_fork() split again results in a 1% increase on
the number of times fork is able to be called per second.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 3 ++-
arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 13 ++++++++++---
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 17 +++++++++++------
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
index 733ff609778797001006c33bba9e3cc5b1f15387..bfc8ea5f9319b19449ec59493b45b926df888832 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_ecall_s);
DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_ecall_m);
DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_break);
-asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *), struct pt_regs *regs);
+asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_kernel(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *), struct pt_regs *regs);
+asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_user(struct pt_regs *regs);
asmlinkage void handle_bad_stack(struct pt_regs *regs);
asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs);
asmlinkage void do_irq(struct pt_regs *regs);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
index b2dc5e7c7b3a843fa4aa02eba2a911eb3ce31d1f..0fb338000c6dc0358742cd03497fa54b9e9d1aec 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
@@ -319,14 +319,21 @@ SYM_CODE_END(handle_kernel_stack_overflow)
ASM_NOKPROBE(handle_kernel_stack_overflow)
#endif
-SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork_asm)
+SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork_kernel_asm)
call schedule_tail
move a0, s1 /* fn_arg */
move a1, s0 /* fn */
move a2, sp /* pt_regs */
- call ret_from_fork
+ call ret_from_fork_kernel
j ret_from_exception
-SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork_asm)
+SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork_kernel_asm)
+
+SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork_user_asm)
+ call schedule_tail
+ move a0, sp /* pt_regs */
+ call ret_from_fork_user
+ j ret_from_exception
+SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork_user_asm)
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_STACKS
/*
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
index 7b0a0bfe29aec896c2bdd8976d855dd390de88d7..485ec7a80a56097e8905cd6395af29633846b5c8 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ unsigned long __stack_chk_guard __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
#endif
-extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_asm(void);
+extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_kernel_asm(void);
+extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_user_asm(void);
void noinstr arch_cpu_idle(void)
{
@@ -208,14 +209,18 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
return 0;
}
-asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *), struct pt_regs *regs)
+asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_kernel(void *fn_arg, int (*fn)(void *), struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- if (unlikely(fn))
- fn(fn_arg);
+ fn(fn_arg);
syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
}
+asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_user(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
+}
+
int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
{
unsigned long clone_flags = args->flags;
@@ -238,6 +243,7 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
p->thread.s[0] = (unsigned long)args->fn;
p->thread.s[1] = (unsigned long)args->fn_arg;
+ p->thread.ra = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork_kernel_asm;
} else {
*childregs = *(current_pt_regs());
/* Turn off status.VS */
@@ -247,12 +253,11 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
childregs->tp = tls;
childregs->a0 = 0; /* Return value of fork() */
- p->thread.s[0] = 0;
+ p->thread.ra = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork_user_asm;
}
p->thread.riscv_v_flags = 0;
if (has_vector() || has_xtheadvector())
riscv_v_thread_alloc(p);
- p->thread.ra = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork_asm;
p->thread.sp = (unsigned long)childregs; /* kernel sp */
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-20 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-20 17:29 [PATCH v6 0/4] entry: Move ret_from_fork() to C and inline syscall_exit_to_user_mode() Charlie Jenkins
2025-03-20 17:29 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] riscv: entry: Convert ret_from_fork() to C Charlie Jenkins
2025-03-20 17:29 ` Charlie Jenkins [this message]
2025-03-21 6:36 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] riscv: entry: Split ret_from_fork() into user and kernel Alexandre Ghiti
2025-03-20 17:29 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] LoongArch: entry: Migrate ret_from_fork() to C Charlie Jenkins
2025-05-05 4:58 ` Huacai Chen
2025-03-20 17:29 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] entry: Inline syscall_exit_to_user_mode() Charlie Jenkins
2025-03-21 21:22 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] entry: Move ret_from_fork() to C and inline syscall_exit_to_user_mode() Thomas Gleixner
2025-04-28 21:54 ` Charlie Jenkins
2025-04-29 6:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
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