[PATCH v5 5/8] riscv/runtime-const: Introduce runtime_const_mask_32()

K Prateek Nayak kprateek.nayak at amd.com
Mon Jun 29 21:55:28 PDT 2026


Futex hash computation requires a mask operation with read-only after
init data that will be converted to a runtime constant in the subsequent
commit.

Introduce runtime_const_mask_32 to further optimize the mask operation
in the futex hash computation hot path. Since all the current use-cases
are of the form GENMASK(n, 0), with n > 0, following sequence:

  srli a0, a1, imm
  slli a0, a0, imm

is used for RISC-V where imm = (31 - width) to improve instruction
density and performance.

"The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I - Unprivileged
Architecture" [1] Sec. 2.4.1 "Integer Register-Immediate Instructions"
notes the immediate shift for SRLI and SLLI are 5 bits wide starting at
bit #10. __runtime_fixup_shift() is reused to patch the immediate shifts
for the two instructions.

If a future use case arises that needs to tackle arbitrary mask,
consider using:

  lui   a0, 0x12346       # upper; +0x800 then >>12 for correct rounding
  addi  a0, a0, 0x678     # lower 12 bits

to patch the 32-bit mask in the asm block and return "__ret & (val)"
from runtime_const_mask_32() which allows compiler to further optimize
the logical and operation. __runtime_fixup_ptr() already patches a
lui + addi sequence which can be reused when the need arises.

A possible implementation for this alternate scheme can be found at [2].

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
Suggested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
Suggested-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins at gmail.com>
Link: https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/_attachments/riscv-unprivileged.pdf [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260430094730.31624-6-kprateek.nayak@amd.com/ [2]
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak at amd.com>
---
changelog v4..v5:

o Pivoted to SRLI + SLLI sequence for mask operation to extract the
  lower bits for improved instruction desnity (Charlie, Samuel on v2).
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h           |  1 +
 arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
index e9e8ba83e632f..b8bf842d4c136 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define SZREG		__REG_SEL(8, 4)
 #define LGREG		__REG_SEL(3, 2)
 #define SRLI		__REG_SEL(srliw, srli)
+#define SLLI		__REG_SEL(slliw, slli)
 
 #if __SIZEOF_POINTER__ == 8
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
index 1ce02605d2e43..dbf96c937dbb9 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
@@ -159,6 +159,23 @@
 	__ret;							\
 })
 
+#define runtime_const_mask_32(val, sym)				\
+({								\
+	u32 __ret;						\
+	asm_inline(".option push\n\t"				\
+		".option norvc\n\t"				\
+		"1:\t"						\
+		SLLI " %[__ret],%[__val],12\n\t"		\
+		SRLI " %[__ret],%[__ret],12\n\t"		\
+		".option pop\n\t"				\
+		".pushsection runtime_mask_" #sym ",\"a\"\n\t"	\
+		".long 1b - .\n\t"				\
+		".popsection"					\
+		: [__ret] "=r" (__ret)				\
+		: [__val] "r" (val));				\
+	__ret;							\
+})
+
 #define runtime_const_init(type, sym) do {			\
 	extern s32 __start_runtime_##type##_##sym[];		\
 	extern s32 __stop_runtime_##type##_##sym[];		\
@@ -262,6 +279,33 @@ static inline void __runtime_fixup_shift(void *where, unsigned long val)
 	mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
 }
 
+static inline void __runtime_fixup_mask(void *where, unsigned long val)
+{
+	unsigned int width = __fls(val) + 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * XXX: Current implementation only supports patching masks of
+	 * form GENMASK(width, 0) (width >= 0) using a SRLI + SLLI
+	 * sequence instead of LUI + ADDI + AND sequence to improve
+	 * performance, density, and covers all the current use-cases.
+	 *
+	 * When the need arises to support any generic mask, and this
+	 * BUG_ON() is tripped, consider using a:
+	 *
+	 *   lui  %[__ret], #imm16
+	 *   addi %[__ret], #imm16
+	 *
+	 * sequence to load the 32bit const mask, and perform a logical
+	 * and outside the asm block before returning the result. Fixup
+	 * can simply reuse the existing __runtime_fixup_32() to patch
+	 * the LUI + ADDI sequence.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(!val || width > 31 || (GENMASK(width - 1, 0) != val));
+
+	__runtime_fixup_shift(where, 32 - width);
+	__runtime_fixup_shift(where + 4, 32 - width);
+}
+
 static inline void runtime_const_fixup(void (*fn)(void *, unsigned long),
 				       unsigned long val, s32 *start, s32 *end)
 {
-- 
2.34.1




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