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arm64: atomics: lse: improve constraints for simple ops
We have overly conservative assembly constraints for the basic FEAT_LSE
atomic instructions, and using more accurate and permissive constraints
will allow for better code generation.
The FEAT_LSE basic atomic instructions have come in two forms:
LD{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, <Rt>, [<Rn>]
ST{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, [<Rn>]
The ST* forms are aliases of the LD* forms where:
ST{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, [<Rn>]
Is:
LD{op}{order}{size} <Rs>, XZR, [<Rn>]
For either form, both <Rs> and <Rn> are read but not written back to,
and <Rt> is written with the original value of the memory location.
Where (<Rt> == <Rs>) or (<Rt> == <Rn>), <Rt> is written *after* the
other register value(s) are consumed. There are no UNPREDICTABLE or
CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviours when any pair of <Rs>, <Rt>, or
<Rn> are the same register.
Our current inline assembly always uses <Rs> == <Rt>, treating this
register as both an input and an output (using a '+r' constraint). This
forces the compiler to do some unnecessary register shuffling and/or
redundant value generation.
For example, the compiler cannot reuse the <Rs> value, and currently GCC
11.1.0 will compile:
__lse_atomic_add(1, a);
__lse_atomic_add(1, b);
__lse_atomic_add(1, c);
As:
mov w3, #0x1
mov w4, w3
stadd w4, [x0]
mov w0, w3
stadd w0, [x1]
stadd w3, [x2]
We can improve this with more accurate constraints, separating <Rs> and
<Rt>, where <Rs> is an input-only register ('r'), and <Rt> is an
output-only value ('=r'). As <Rt> is written back after <Rs> is
consumed, it does not need to be earlyclobber ('=&r'), leaving the
compiler free to use the same register for both <Rs> and <Rt> where this
is desirable.
At the same time, the redundant 'r' constraint for `v` is removed, as
the `+Q` constraint is sufficient.
With this change, the above example becomes:
mov w3, #0x1
stadd w3, [x0]
stadd w3, [x1]
stadd w3, [x2]
I've made this change for the non-value-returning and FETCH ops. The
RETURN ops have a multi-instruction sequence for which we cannot use the
same constraints, and a subsequent patch will rewrite hte RETURN ops in
terms of the FETCH ops, relying on the ability for the compiler to reuse
the <Rs> value.
This is intended as an optimization.
There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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