[PATCH] riscv: errata: thead: use riscv_nonstd_cache_ops for CMO

Emil Renner Berthing emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com
Fri Sep 29 15:12:58 PDT 2023


Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> Previously, we use alternative mechanism to dynamically patch
> the CMO operations for THEAD C906/C910 during boot for performance
> reason. But as pointed out by Arnd, "there is already a significant
> cost in accessing the invalidated cache lines afterwards, which is
> likely going to be much higher than the cost of an indirect branch".
> And indeed, there's no performance difference with GMAC and EMMC per
> my test on Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A board.
>
> Use riscv_nonstd_cache_ops for THEAD C906/C910 CMO to simplify
> the alternative code, and to acchieve Arnd's goal -- "I think
> moving the THEAD ops at the same level as all nonstandard operations
> makes sense, but I'd still leave CMO as an explicit fast path that
> avoids the indirect branch. This seems like the right thing to do both
> for readability and for platforms on which the indirect branch has a
> noticeable overhead."

Hi Jisheng,

Thank you for doing this! This boots fine on my Nezha board (Allwinner D1)
running btrfs on the sd-card which was quick to find bugs when this code
first went upstream.

Tested-by: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata            |  1 +
>  arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c     | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h | 50 +++---------------
>  3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> index 566bcefeab50..d7972914f9de 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ config ERRATA_THEAD_CMO
>  	bool "Apply T-Head cache management errata"
>  	depends on ERRATA_THEAD && MMU
>  	select RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> +	select RISCV_NONSTANDARD_CACHE_OPS
>  	default y
>  	help
>  	  This will apply the cache management errata to handle the
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c b/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
> index 0554ed4bf087..1c320abfe446 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c
> @@ -12,8 +12,10 @@
>  #include <asm/alternative.h>
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
> +#include <asm/dma-noncoherent.h>
>  #include <asm/errata_list.h>
>  #include <asm/hwprobe.h>
> +#include <asm/io.h>
>  #include <asm/patch.h>
>  #include <asm/vendorid_list.h>
>
> @@ -33,6 +35,75 @@ static bool errata_probe_pbmt(unsigned int stage,
>  	return false;
>  }
>
> +/*
> + * dcache.ipa rs1 (invalidate, physical address)
> + * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> + *   0000001    01010      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + * dache.iva rs1 (invalida, virtual address)
> + *   0000001    00110      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + *
> + * dcache.cpa rs1 (clean, physical address)
> + * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> + *   0000001    01001      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + * dcache.cva rs1 (clean, virtual address)
> + *   0000001    00101      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + *
> + * dcache.cipa rs1 (clean then invalidate, physical address)
> + * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> + *   0000001    01011      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + * dcache.civa rs1 (... virtual address)
> + *   0000001    00111      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> + *
> + * sync.s (make sure all cache operations finished)
> + * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> + *   0000000    11001     00000      000      00000  0001011
> + */
> +#define THEAD_inval_A0	".long 0x0265000b"
> +#define THEAD_clean_A0	".long 0x0255000b"
> +#define THEAD_flush_A0	".long 0x0275000b"
> +#define THEAD_SYNC_S	".long 0x0190000b"
> +
> +#define THEAD_CMO_OP(_op, _start, _size, _cachesize)			\
> +asm volatile("mv a0, %1\n\t"						\
> +	     "j 2f\n\t"							\
> +	     "3:\n\t"							\
> +	     THEAD_##_op##_A0 "\n\t"					\
> +	     "add a0, a0, %0\n\t"					\
> +	     "2:\n\t"							\
> +	     "bltu a0, %2, 3b\n\t"					\
> +	     THEAD_SYNC_S						\
> +	     : : "r"(_cachesize),					\
> +		 "r"((unsigned long)(_start) & ~((_cachesize) - 1UL)),	\
> +		 "r"((unsigned long)(_start) + (_size))			\
> +	     : "a0")
> +
> +static void thead_errata_cache_inv(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size)
> +{
> +	void *vaddr = phys_to_virt(paddr);
> +
> +	THEAD_CMO_OP(inval, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
> +}
> +
> +static void thead_errata_cache_wback(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size)
> +{
> +	void *vaddr = phys_to_virt(paddr);
> +
> +	THEAD_CMO_OP(clean, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
> +}
> +
> +static void thead_errata_cache_wback_inv(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size)
> +{
> +	void *vaddr = phys_to_virt(paddr);
> +
> +	THEAD_CMO_OP(flush, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
> +}
> +
> +static const struct riscv_nonstd_cache_ops thead_errata_cmo_ops = {
> +	.wback = &thead_errata_cache_wback,
> +	.inv = &thead_errata_cache_inv,
> +	.wback_inv = &thead_errata_cache_wback_inv,
> +};
> +
>  static bool errata_probe_cmo(unsigned int stage,
>  			     unsigned long arch_id, unsigned long impid)
>  {
> @@ -48,6 +119,8 @@ static bool errata_probe_cmo(unsigned int stage,
>  	if (stage == RISCV_ALTERNATIVES_BOOT) {
>  		riscv_cbom_block_size = L1_CACHE_BYTES;
>  		riscv_noncoherent_supported();
> +		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_NONSTANDARD_CACHE_OPS))
> +			riscv_noncoherent_register_cache_ops(&thead_errata_cmo_ops);
>  	}
>
>  	return true;
> @@ -77,8 +150,7 @@ static u32 thead_errata_probe(unsigned int stage,
>  	if (errata_probe_pbmt(stage, archid, impid))
>  		cpu_req_errata |= BIT(ERRATA_THEAD_PBMT);
>
> -	if (errata_probe_cmo(stage, archid, impid))
> -		cpu_req_errata |= BIT(ERRATA_THEAD_CMO);
> +	errata_probe_cmo(stage, archid, impid);
>
>  	if (errata_probe_pmu(stage, archid, impid))
>  		cpu_req_errata |= BIT(ERRATA_THEAD_PMU);
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h
> index b55b434f0059..ea33288f8a25 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h
> @@ -24,9 +24,8 @@
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ERRATA_THEAD
>  #define	ERRATA_THEAD_PBMT 0
> -#define	ERRATA_THEAD_CMO 1
> -#define	ERRATA_THEAD_PMU 2
> -#define	ERRATA_THEAD_NUMBER 3
> +#define	ERRATA_THEAD_PMU 1
> +#define	ERRATA_THEAD_NUMBER 2
>  #endif
>
>  #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
> @@ -94,54 +93,17 @@ asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE(						\
>  #define ALT_THEAD_PMA(_val)
>  #endif
>
> -/*
> - * dcache.ipa rs1 (invalidate, physical address)
> - * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> - *   0000001    01010      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - * dache.iva rs1 (invalida, virtual address)
> - *   0000001    00110      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - *
> - * dcache.cpa rs1 (clean, physical address)
> - * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> - *   0000001    01001      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - * dcache.cva rs1 (clean, virtual address)
> - *   0000001    00101      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - *
> - * dcache.cipa rs1 (clean then invalidate, physical address)
> - * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> - *   0000001    01011      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - * dcache.civa rs1 (... virtual address)
> - *   0000001    00111      rs1       000      00000  0001011
> - *
> - * sync.s (make sure all cache operations finished)
> - * | 31 - 25 | 24 - 20 | 19 - 15 | 14 - 12 | 11 - 7 | 6 - 0 |
> - *   0000000    11001     00000      000      00000  0001011
> - */
> -#define THEAD_inval_A0	".long 0x0265000b"
> -#define THEAD_clean_A0	".long 0x0255000b"
> -#define THEAD_flush_A0	".long 0x0275000b"
> -#define THEAD_SYNC_S	".long 0x0190000b"
> -
>  #define ALT_CMO_OP(_op, _start, _size, _cachesize)			\
> -asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_2(						\
> -	__nops(6),							\
> +asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE(						\
> +	__nops(5),							\
>  	"mv a0, %1\n\t"							\
>  	"j 2f\n\t"							\
>  	"3:\n\t"							\
>  	CBO_##_op(a0)							\
>  	"add a0, a0, %0\n\t"						\
>  	"2:\n\t"							\
> -	"bltu a0, %2, 3b\n\t"						\
> -	"nop", 0, RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOM, CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZICBOM,	\
> -	"mv a0, %1\n\t"							\
> -	"j 2f\n\t"							\
> -	"3:\n\t"							\
> -	THEAD_##_op##_A0 "\n\t"						\
> -	"add a0, a0, %0\n\t"						\
> -	"2:\n\t"							\
> -	"bltu a0, %2, 3b\n\t"						\
> -	THEAD_SYNC_S, THEAD_VENDOR_ID,					\
> -			ERRATA_THEAD_CMO, CONFIG_ERRATA_THEAD_CMO)	\
> +	"bltu a0, %2, 3b\n\t",						\
> +	0, RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICBOM, CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZICBOM)		\
>  	: : "r"(_cachesize),						\
>  	    "r"((unsigned long)(_start) & ~((_cachesize) - 1UL)),	\
>  	    "r"((unsigned long)(_start) + (_size))			\
> --
> 2.40.1
>
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