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From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() for Zbb
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:24:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260113122457.27507-4-jszhang@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260113122457.27507-1-jszhang@kernel.org>

In commit f915a3e5b018 ("arm64: word-at-a-time: improve byte count
calculations for LE"), Linus improved the find_zero() for arm64 LE.
Do the same optimization as he did: "do __ffs() on the intermediate value
that found whether there is a zero byte, before we've actually computed
the final byte mask.", so that we share the similar improvements:

"The difference between the old and the new implementation is that
"count_zero()" ends up scheduling better because it is being done on a
value that is available earlier (before the final mask).

But more importantly, it can be implemented without the insane semantics
of the standard bit finding helpers that have the off-by-one issue and
have to special-case the zero mask situation."

Before the patch:
0000000000000000 <find_zero>:
   0:	c909                	beqz	a0,12 <.L1>
   2:	60051793          	clz	a5,a0
   6:	03f00513          	li	a0,63
   a:	8d1d                	sub	a0,a0,a5
   c:	2505                	addiw	a0,a0,1
   e:	4035551b          	sraiw	a0,a0,0x3

0000000000000012 <.L1>:
  12:	8082                	ret

After the patch:

0000000000000000 <find_zero>:
   0:	60151513          	ctz	a0,a0
   4:	810d                	srli	a0,a0,0x3
   6:	8082                	ret

7 instructions vs 3 instructions!

As can be seen, on RV64 w/ Zbb, the new "find_zero()" ends up just
"ctz" plus the shift right that then ends up being subsumed by the
"add to final length".

But I have no HW platform which supports Zbb, so I can't get the
performance improvement numbers by the last patch, only built and
tested the patch on QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
index ca3d30741ed1..8c5ac6a72f7f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static inline unsigned long prep_zero_mask(unsigned long val,
 
 static inline unsigned long create_zero_mask(unsigned long bits)
 {
+	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB))
+		return bits;
+
 	bits = (bits - 1) & ~bits;
 	return bits >> 7;
 }
@@ -69,13 +72,19 @@ static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask)
 static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask)
 {
 	if (riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB))
-		return !mask ? 0 : ((__fls(mask) + 1) >> 3);
+		return __ffs(mask) >> 3;
 
 	return count_masked_bytes(mask);
 }
 
-/* The mask we created is directly usable as a bytemask */
-#define zero_bytemask(mask) (mask)
+static inline unsigned long zero_bytemask(unsigned long bits)
+{
+	if (!riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB))
+		return bits;
+
+	bits = (bits - 1) & ~bits;
+	return bits >> 7;
+}
 
 #endif /* !(defined(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && defined(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB)) */
 
-- 
2.51.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-13 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-13 12:24 [PATCH 0/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() Jisheng Zhang
2026-01-13 12:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() for !RISCV_ISA_ZBB Jisheng Zhang
2026-01-13 12:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() without Zbb Jisheng Zhang
2026-01-13 12:24 ` Jisheng Zhang [this message]

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