From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40mVXx4G1hzDr3y for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 09:10:57 +1000 (AEST) Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 09:10:52 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Christophe Leroy Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Michael Ellerman , Scott Wood , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Shile Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "powerpc/64: Fix checksum folding in csum_add()" Message-ID: <20180516231052.GA24778@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20180410063437.217D2653BC@po15720vm.idsi0.si.c-s.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20180410063437.217D2653BC@po15720vm.idsi0.si.c-s.fr> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 08:34:37AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > This reverts commit 6ad966d7303b70165228dba1ee8da1a05c10eefe. > > That commit was pointless, because csum_add() sums two 32 bits > values, so the sum is 0x1fffffffe at the maximum. > And then when adding upper part (1) and lower part (0xfffffffe), > the result is 0xffffffff which doesn't carry. > Any lower value will not carry either. > > And behind the fact that this commit is useless, it also kills the > whole purpose of having an arch specific inline csum_add() > because the resulting code gets even worse than what is obtained > with the generic implementation of csum_add() > > 0000000000000240 <.csum_add>: > 240: 38 00 ff ff li r0,-1 > 244: 7c 84 1a 14 add r4,r4,r3 > 248: 78 00 00 20 clrldi r0,r0,32 > 24c: 78 89 00 22 rldicl r9,r4,32,32 > 250: 7c 80 00 38 and r0,r4,r0 > 254: 7c 09 02 14 add r0,r9,r0 > 258: 78 09 00 22 rldicl r9,r0,32,32 > 25c: 7c 00 4a 14 add r0,r0,r9 > 260: 78 03 00 20 clrldi r3,r0,32 > 264: 4e 80 00 20 blr > > In comparison, the generic implementation of csum_add() gives: > > 0000000000000290 <.csum_add>: > 290: 7c 63 22 14 add r3,r3,r4 > 294: 7f 83 20 40 cmplw cr7,r3,r4 > 298: 7c 10 10 26 mfocrf r0,1 > 29c: 54 00 ef fe rlwinm r0,r0,29,31,31 > 2a0: 7c 60 1a 14 add r3,r0,r3 > 2a4: 78 63 00 20 clrldi r3,r3,32 > 2a8: 4e 80 00 20 blr > > And the reverted implementation for PPC64 gives: > > 0000000000000240 <.csum_add>: > 240: 7c 84 1a 14 add r4,r4,r3 > 244: 78 80 00 22 rldicl r0,r4,32,32 > 248: 7c 80 22 14 add r4,r0,r4 > 24c: 78 83 00 20 clrldi r3,r4,32 > 250: 4e 80 00 20 blr > > Fixes: 6ad966d7303b7 ("powerpc/64: Fix checksum folding in csum_add()") > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Seems I was right first time... :) Acked-by: Paul Mackerras