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| author | Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com> | 2024-08-09 14:44:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> | 2024-08-14 13:13:23 -0700 |
| commit | c42e2f076769c9c1bc5f3f0aa1c2032558e76647 (patch) | |
| tree | b8fc8045648f257153c2ca4ec40fe44a8aa76723 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8400291e289ee6b2bf9779ff1c83a291501f017b (diff) | |
RISC-V: hwprobe: Add MISALIGNED_PERF key
RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0 was mistakenly flagged as a bitmask in
hwprobe_key_is_bitmask(), when in reality it was an enum value. This
causes problems when used in conjunction with RISCV_HWPROBE_WHICH_CPUS,
since SLOW, FAST, and EMULATED have values whose bits overlap with
each other. If the caller asked for the set of CPUs that was SLOW or
EMULATED, the returned set would also include CPUs that were FAST.
Introduce a new hwprobe key, RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MISALIGNED_PERF, which
returns the same values in response to a direct query (with no flags),
but is properly handled as an enumerated value. As a result, SLOW,
FAST, and EMULATED are all correctly treated as distinct values under
the new key when queried with the WHICH_CPUS flag.
Leave the old key in place to avoid disturbing applications which may
have already come to rely on the key, with or without its broken
behavior with respect to the WHICH_CPUS flag.
Fixes: e178bf146e4b ("RISC-V: hwprobe: Introduce which-cpus flag")
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809214444.3257596-2-evan@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst index 3db60a0911df..a994eed75bde 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst @@ -239,8 +239,13 @@ The following keys are defined: ratified in commit 98918c844281 ("Merge pull request #1217 from riscv/zawrs") of riscv-isa-manual. -* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0`: A bitmask that contains performance - information about the selected set of processors. +* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_CPUPERF_0`: Deprecated. Returns similar values to + :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MISALIGNED_SCALAR_PERF`, but the key was + mistakenly classified as a bitmask rather than a value. + +* :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_MISALIGNED_SCALAR_PERF`: An enum value describing + the performance of misaligned scalar native word accesses on the selected set + of processors. * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNKNOWN`: The performance of misaligned accesses is unknown. @@ -249,12 +254,13 @@ The following keys are defined: emulated via software, either in or below the kernel. These accesses are always extremely slow. - * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW`: Misaligned accesses are slower - than equivalent byte accesses. Misaligned accesses may be supported - directly in hardware, or trapped and emulated by software. + * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW`: Misaligned native word + sized accesses are slower than the equivalent quantity of byte accesses. + Misaligned accesses may be supported directly in hardware, or trapped and + emulated by software. - * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST`: Misaligned accesses are faster - than equivalent byte accesses. + * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST`: Misaligned native word + sized accesses are faster than the equivalent quantity of byte accesses. * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNSUPPORTED`: Misaligned accesses are not supported at all and will generate a misaligned address fault. |