From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To: "Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"Clément Léger" <cleger@rivosinc.com>,
"Evan Green" <evan@rivosinc.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>,
Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v10 6/6] RISC-V: hwprobe: Document unaligned vector perf key
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:00:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241017-jesse_unaligned_vector-v10-6-5b33500160f8@rivosinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241017-jesse_unaligned_vector-v10-0-5b33500160f8@rivosinc.com>
From: Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Document key for reporting the speed of unaligned vector accesses.
The descriptions are the same as the scalar equivalent values.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <jesse@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
---
Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
index 85b709257918..ea4e0b9c73e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst
@@ -274,3 +274,19 @@ The following keys are defined:
represent the highest userspace virtual address usable.
* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_TIME_CSR_FREQ`: Frequency (in Hz) of `time CSR`.
+
+* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MISALIGNED_VECTOR_PERF`: An enum value describing the
+ performance of misaligned vector accesses on the selected set of processors.
+
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_VECTOR_UNKNOWN`: The performance of misaligned
+ vector accesses is unknown.
+
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_VECTOR_SLOW`: 32-bit misaligned accesses using vector
+ registers are slower than the equivalent quantity of byte accesses via vector registers.
+ Misaligned accesses may be supported directly in hardware, or trapped and emulated by software.
+
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_VECTOR_FAST`: 32-bit misaligned accesses using vector
+ registers are faster than the equivalent quantity of byte accesses via vector registers.
+
+ * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_VECTOR_UNSUPPORTED`: Misaligned vector accesses are
+ not supported at all and will generate a misaligned address fault.
--
2.45.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-17 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-17 19:00 [PATCH v10 0/6] RISC-V: Detect and report speed of unaligned vector accesses Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-17 19:00 ` [PATCH v10 1/6] RISC-V: Check scalar unaligned access on all CPUs Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-17 19:00 ` [PATCH v10 2/6] RISC-V: Scalar unaligned access emulated on hotplug CPUs Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-17 19:00 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] RISC-V: Replace RISCV_MISALIGNED with RISCV_SCALAR_MISALIGNED Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-17 19:00 ` [PATCH v10 4/6] RISC-V: Detect unaligned vector accesses supported Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-18 23:48 ` Jesse T
2024-10-17 19:00 ` [PATCH v10 5/6] RISC-V: Report vector unaligned access speed hwprobe Charlie Jenkins
2024-10-17 19:00 ` Charlie Jenkins [this message]
2024-10-24 17:50 ` [PATCH v10 0/6] RISC-V: Detect and report speed of unaligned vector accesses patchwork-bot+linux-riscv
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