[PATCH v2] include: sbi: Optimize reads of mhartid and mscratch

Samuel Holland samuel.holland at sifive.com
Fri Oct 25 11:45:47 PDT 2024


csr_read() is marked as volatile and clobbering memory, which is
generally the safe thing to do. However, these two CSRs do not have any
side effects, and the values returned do not change between calls. The
compiler can generate better code if we allow it to reorder calls to
these functions and cache the return value. Introduce csr_read_relaxed()
for this use case.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
---

Changes in v2:
 - Add csr_read_relaxed() instead of open-coding the assembly

 include/sbi/riscv_asm.h   | 10 +++++++++-
 include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sbi/riscv_asm.h b/include/sbi/riscv_asm.h
index 2c34635a..4605db20 100644
--- a/include/sbi/riscv_asm.h
+++ b/include/sbi/riscv_asm.h
@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@
 		__v;                                            \
 	})
 
+/* Variant of csr_read() that allows the compiler to cache the value. */
+#define csr_read_relaxed(csr)                                     \
+	({                                                        \
+		register unsigned long __v;                       \
+		__asm__ ("csrr %0, " __ASM_STR(csr) : "=r"(__v)); \
+		__v;                                              \
+	})
+
 #define csr_write(csr, val)                                        \
 	({                                                         \
 		unsigned long __v = (unsigned long)(val);          \
@@ -163,7 +171,7 @@ void csr_write_num(int csr_num, unsigned long val);
 	} while (0)
 
 /* Get current HART id */
-#define current_hartid()	((unsigned int)csr_read(CSR_MHARTID))
+#define current_hartid()	((unsigned int)csr_read_relaxed(CSR_MHARTID))
 
 /* determine CPU extension, return non-zero support */
 int misa_extension_imp(char ext);
diff --git a/include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h b/include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h
index 9ae4f891..9cd7b0d6 100644
--- a/include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h
+++ b/include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ enum sbi_scratch_options {
 
 /** Get pointer to sbi_scratch for current HART */
 #define sbi_scratch_thishart_ptr() \
-	((struct sbi_scratch *)csr_read(CSR_MSCRATCH))
+	((struct sbi_scratch *)csr_read_relaxed(CSR_MSCRATCH))
 
 /** Get Arg1 of next booting stage for current HART */
 #define sbi_scratch_thishart_arg1_ptr() \
-- 
2.45.1




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