Re: [PATCH v2] ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()

[Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@synopsys.com>]

On 29-11-2018 21:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:14 PM Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
>> --->8--
>> static noinline void test_readsl(char *buf, int len)
>> {
>>         readsl(0xdeadbeef, buf, len);
>> }
>> --->8---
>>
>> And the disassembly:
>> --->8---
>> 00000e88 <test_readsl>:
>>  e88:    breq.dr1,0,eac <0xeac>        /* if (count) */
>>  e8c:    and r2,r0,3
>>
>>  e90:    mov_s lp_count,r1            /* r1 = count */
>>  e92:    brne r2,0,eb0 <0xeb0>        /* if (bptr % ((t) / 8)) */
>>
>>  e96:    sub r0,r0,4
>>  e9a:    nop_s
>>
>>  e9c:    lp eac <0xeac>                /* first loop */
>>  ea0:    ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]
>>  ea8:    st.a r2,[r0,4]
>>  eac:    j_s [blink]
>>  eae:    nop_s
>>
>>  eb0:    lp ed6 <0xed6>                /* second loop */
>>  eb4:    ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]
>>  ebc:    lsr r5,r2,8
>>  ec0:    lsr r4,r2,16
>>  ec4:    lsr r3,r2,24
>>  ec8:    stb_s r2,[r0,0]
>>  eca:    stb r5,[r0,1]
>>  ece:    stb r4,[r0,2]
>>  ed2:    stb_s r3,[r0,3]
>>  ed4:    add_s r0,r0,4
>>  ed6:    j_s [blink]
>>
>> --->8---
>>
>> See how the if condition added in this version is checked in
>> <test_readsl+0xe92> and then it takes two different loops.
> This looks good to me. I wonder what the result is for CPUs
> that /do/ support unaligned accesses. Normally put_unaligned()
> should fall back to a simple store in that case, but I'm not
> sure it can fold the two stores back into one and skip the
> alignment check. Probably not worth overoptimizing for that
> case (the MMIO access latency should be much higher than
> anything you could gain here), but I'm still curious about
> how well our get/put_unaligned macros work.

Here is disassembly for an ARC CPU that supports unaligned accesses:

-->8---
00000d48 <test_readsl>:
 d48:    breq_s r1,0,28            /* if (count) */
 d4a:    tst    r0,0x3
 d4e:    bne_s 32                /* if (bptr % ((t) / 8)) */
 
 d50:    ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]        /* first loop */
 d58:    sub_s r1,r1,0x1
 d5a:    tst_s r1,r1
 d5c:    bne.d -12
 d60:    st.ab r2,[r0,4]
 
 d64:    dmb    0x1                    /* common exit point */
 d68:    j_s    [blink]
 d6a:    nop_s
 
 d6c:    ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]        /* second loop */
 d74:    sub_s r1,r1,0x1
 d76:    tst_s r1,r1
 d78:    bne.d -12
 d7c:    st.ab r2,[r0,4]

 d80:    b_s -28                    /* jmp to 0xd64 */
 d82:    nop_s
--->8---

Notice how first and second loop are exactly equal ...

Thanks and Best Regards,
Jose Miguel Abreu

>
>        Arnd