| Message ID | 20171204122645.31535-12-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org |
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) > that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the > instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add > some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only > executed every so many loop iterations. > > In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non > trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), > and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only > executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. > The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield > path, which should restore the preserved context again. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif > #endif > .endm > > +/* > + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from > + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) > + * > + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling > + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, > + * yielding is pointless. > + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable > + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the > + * yield fixup code at @lbl. > + */ > + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop > + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop > + yield_neon_post \lbl > + .endm > + > + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f > +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT > + /* > + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the > + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform > + * the check every 2^order strides. > + */ > + .if \order > 1 > + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 > + .error "stride should be a power of 2" > + .endif > + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) > + b.ne \loop > + .endif I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- neon stuff? If we had if_cond_yield_neon // patchup code endif_yield_neon then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate like loop: // crypto stuff tst x0, #0xf b.ne loop if_cond_yield_neon // patchup code endif_cond_yield_neon b loop I think this is clearer than burying checks and branches in a macro that is trying to be generic. Label arguments can be added to elide some branches of course, at a corresponding cost to clarity... in the common case the cache will be hot and the branches won't be mispredicted though. Is it really worth it? > + > + get_thread_info x0 > + ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] > + ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] > + cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET asm-offsets? [...] Cheers ---Dave
> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) >> that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the >> instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add >> some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only >> executed every so many loop iterations. >> >> In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non >> trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), >> and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only >> executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. >> The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield >> path, which should restore the preserved context again. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> >> --- >> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif >> #endif >> .endm >> >> +/* >> + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from >> + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) >> + * >> + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling >> + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, >> + * yielding is pointless. >> + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable >> + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the >> + * yield fixup code at @lbl. >> + */ >> + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop >> + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop >> + yield_neon_post \lbl >> + .endm >> + >> + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f >> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT >> + /* >> + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the >> + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform >> + * the check every 2^order strides. >> + */ >> + .if \order > 1 >> + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 >> + .error "stride should be a power of 2" >> + .endif >> + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) >> + b.ne \loop >> + .endif > > I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to > conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a > "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. > > Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- > neon stuff? > Fair enough. I incorporated the check here so it disappears from the code entirely when !CONFIG_PREEMPT, because otherwise, you end up with a sequence that is mispredicted every # iterations without any benefit. I guess i could macroise that separately though. > If we had > > if_cond_yield_neon > // patchup code > endif_yield_neon > > then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate > like > > loop: > // crypto stuff > tst x0, #0xf > b.ne loop > > if_cond_yield_neon > // patchup code > endif_cond_yield_neon > > b loop > > I think this is clearer than burying checks and branches in a macro that > is trying to be generic. > Agreed. > Label arguments can be added to elide some branches of course, at a > corresponding cost to clarity... in the common case the cache will > be hot and the branches won't be mispredicted though. Is it really > worth it? > Perhaps not. And i have not made any attempts yet to benchmark at great detail, given that i need some feedback from the rt crowd first whether this is likely to work as desired. >> + >> + get_thread_info x0 >> + ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] >> + ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] >> + cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET > > asm-offsets? > This is not an offset in that regard, but the header that defines it is not asm safe > [...] > > Cheers > ---Dave
On 5 December 2017 at 12:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > >> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) >>> that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the >>> instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add >>> some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only >>> executed every so many loop iterations. >>> >>> In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non >>> trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), >>> and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only >>> executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. >>> The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield >>> path, which should restore the preserved context again. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> >>> --- >>> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >>> index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 >>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >>> @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif >>> #endif >>> .endm >>> >>> +/* >>> + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from >>> + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) >>> + * >>> + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling >>> + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, >>> + * yielding is pointless. >>> + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable >>> + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the >>> + * yield fixup code at @lbl. >>> + */ >>> + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop >>> + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop >>> + yield_neon_post \lbl >>> + .endm >>> + >>> + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT >>> + /* >>> + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the >>> + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform >>> + * the check every 2^order strides. >>> + */ >>> + .if \order > 1 >>> + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 >>> + .error "stride should be a power of 2" >>> + .endif >>> + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) >>> + b.ne \loop >>> + .endif >> >> I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to >> conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a >> "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. >> >> Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- >> neon stuff? >> > > Fair enough. I incorporated the check here so it disappears from the code entirely when !CONFIG_PREEMPT, because otherwise, you end up with a sequence that is mispredicted every # iterations without any benefit. > I guess i could macroise that separately though. > >> If we had >> >> if_cond_yield_neon >> // patchup code >> endif_yield_neon >> I like this, but ... >> then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate >> like >> >> loop: >> // crypto stuff >> tst x0, #0xf >> b.ne loop >> >> if_cond_yield_neon >> // patchup code >> endif_cond_yield_neon >> I need to put the post patchup code somewhere too. Please refer to the CRC patches for the best examples of this. >> b loop >> >> I think this is clearer than burying checks and branches in a macro that >> is trying to be generic. >> > > Agreed. > >> Label arguments can be added to elide some branches of course, at a >> corresponding cost to clarity... in the common case the cache will >> be hot and the branches won't be mispredicted though. Is it really >> worth it? >> > > Perhaps not. And i have not made any attempts yet to benchmark at great detail, given that i need some feedback from the rt crowd first whether this is likely to work as desired. > >>> + >>> + get_thread_info x0 >>> + ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] >>> + ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] >>> + cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET >> >> asm-offsets? >> > > This is not an offset in that regard, but the header that defines it is not asm safe > >> [...] >> >> Cheers >> ---Dave
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:04:34PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 5 December 2017 at 12:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>> Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) > >>> that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the > >>> instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add > >>> some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only > >>> executed every so many loop iterations. > >>> > >>> In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non > >>> trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), > >>> and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only > >>> executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. > >>> The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield > >>> path, which should restore the preserved context again. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> > >>> --- > >>> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ > >>> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >>> index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 > >>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >>> @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif > >>> #endif > >>> .endm > >>> > >>> +/* > >>> + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from > >>> + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) > >>> + * > >>> + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling > >>> + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, > >>> + * yielding is pointless. > >>> + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable > >>> + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the > >>> + * yield fixup code at @lbl. > >>> + */ > >>> + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop > >>> + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop > >>> + yield_neon_post \lbl > >>> + .endm > >>> + > >>> + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f > >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT > >>> + /* > >>> + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the > >>> + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform > >>> + * the check every 2^order strides. > >>> + */ > >>> + .if \order > 1 > >>> + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 > >>> + .error "stride should be a power of 2" > >>> + .endif > >>> + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) > >>> + b.ne \loop > >>> + .endif > >> > >> I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to > >> conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a > >> "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. > >> > >> Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- > >> neon stuff? > >> > > > > Fair enough. I incorporated the check here so it disappears from the code entirely when !CONFIG_PREEMPT, because otherwise, you end up with a sequence that is mispredicted every # iterations without any benefit. > > I guess i could macroise that separately though. > > > >> If we had > >> > >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> // patchup code > >> endif_yield_neon > >> > > I like this, but ... > > >> then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate > >> like > >> > >> loop: > >> // crypto stuff > >> tst x0, #0xf > >> b.ne loop > >> > >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> // patchup code > >> endif_cond_yield_neon > >> > > I need to put the post patchup code somewhere too. Please refer to the > CRC patches for the best examples of this. I'm not sure I follow. If you need to do something different after patchup, can't you either pull that code into the if...endif too, or otherwise put a branch before the endif? [...] Cheers ---Dave
On 6 December 2017 at 11:51, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:04:34PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 5 December 2017 at 12:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: >> > >> > >> >> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> >>> Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) >> >>> that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the >> >>> instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add >> >>> some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only >> >>> executed every so many loop iterations. >> >>> >> >>> In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non >> >>> trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), >> >>> and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only >> >>> executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. >> >>> The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield >> >>> path, which should restore the preserved context again. >> >>> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> >> >>> --- >> >>> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ >> >>> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) >> >>> >> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> >>> index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 >> >>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h >> >>> @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif >> >>> #endif >> >>> .endm >> >>> >> >>> +/* >> >>> + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from >> >>> + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) >> >>> + * >> >>> + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling >> >>> + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, >> >>> + * yielding is pointless. >> >>> + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable >> >>> + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the >> >>> + * yield fixup code at @lbl. >> >>> + */ >> >>> + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop >> >>> + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop >> >>> + yield_neon_post \lbl >> >>> + .endm >> >>> + >> >>> + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f >> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT >> >>> + /* >> >>> + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the >> >>> + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform >> >>> + * the check every 2^order strides. >> >>> + */ >> >>> + .if \order > 1 >> >>> + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 >> >>> + .error "stride should be a power of 2" >> >>> + .endif >> >>> + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) >> >>> + b.ne \loop >> >>> + .endif >> >> >> >> I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to >> >> conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a >> >> "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. >> >> >> >> Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- >> >> neon stuff? >> >> >> > >> > Fair enough. I incorporated the check here so it disappears from the code entirely when !CONFIG_PREEMPT, because otherwise, you end up with a sequence that is mispredicted every # iterations without any benefit. >> > I guess i could macroise that separately though. >> > >> >> If we had >> >> >> >> if_cond_yield_neon >> >> // patchup code >> >> endif_yield_neon >> >> >> >> I like this, but ... >> >> >> then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate >> >> like >> >> >> >> loop: >> >> // crypto stuff >> >> tst x0, #0xf >> >> b.ne loop >> >> >> >> if_cond_yield_neon >> >> // patchup code >> >> endif_cond_yield_neon >> >> >> >> I need to put the post patchup code somewhere too. Please refer to the >> CRC patches for the best examples of this. > > I'm not sure I follow. If you need to do something different after > patchup, can't you either pull that code into the if...endif too, or > otherwise put a branch before the endif? > No, not really. What I currently have is > if_cond_yield_neon > // patchup code > endif_cond_yield_neon which is being turned into get_thread_info x0 ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET csel x0, x0, xzr, eq tbnz x0, #TIF_NEED_RESCHED, 5555f // needs rescheduling? 4444: .subsection 1 5555: // patchup code bl kernel_neon_end bl kernel_neon_begin // post patchup code goes here b 4444b .subsection so what I basically need is a place to put the post patchup code, unless I open code it and branch to a different label right after kernel_neon_begin
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:57:12AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 11:51, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:04:34PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On 5 December 2017 at 12:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> >>> Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) > >> >>> that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the > >> >>> instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add > >> >>> some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only > >> >>> executed every so many loop iterations. > >> >>> > >> >>> In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non > >> >>> trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), > >> >>> and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only > >> >>> executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. > >> >>> The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield > >> >>> path, which should restore the preserved context again. > >> >>> > >> >>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> > >> >>> --- > >> >>> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ > >> >>> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) > >> >>> > >> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >> >>> index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 > >> >>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >> >>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h > >> >>> @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif > >> >>> #endif > >> >>> .endm > >> >>> > >> >>> +/* > >> >>> + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from > >> >>> + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) > >> >>> + * > >> >>> + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling > >> >>> + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, > >> >>> + * yielding is pointless. > >> >>> + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable > >> >>> + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the > >> >>> + * yield fixup code at @lbl. > >> >>> + */ > >> >>> + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop > >> >>> + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop > >> >>> + yield_neon_post \lbl > >> >>> + .endm > >> >>> + > >> >>> + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f > >> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT > >> >>> + /* > >> >>> + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the > >> >>> + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform > >> >>> + * the check every 2^order strides. > >> >>> + */ > >> >>> + .if \order > 1 > >> >>> + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 > >> >>> + .error "stride should be a power of 2" > >> >>> + .endif > >> >>> + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) > >> >>> + b.ne \loop > >> >>> + .endif > >> >> > >> >> I'm not sure what baking in this check gives us, and this seems to > >> >> conflate two rather different things: yielding and defining a > >> >> "heartbeat" frequency for the calling code. > >> >> > >> >> Can we separate out the crypto-loop-helper semantics from the yield- > >> >> neon stuff? > >> >> > >> > > >> > Fair enough. I incorporated the check here so it disappears from the code entirely when !CONFIG_PREEMPT, because otherwise, you end up with a sequence that is mispredicted every # iterations without any benefit. > >> > I guess i could macroise that separately though. > >> > > >> >> If we had > >> >> > >> >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> >> // patchup code > >> >> endif_yield_neon > >> >> > >> > >> I like this, but ... > >> > >> >> then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate > >> >> like > >> >> > >> >> loop: > >> >> // crypto stuff > >> >> tst x0, #0xf > >> >> b.ne loop > >> >> > >> >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> >> // patchup code > >> >> endif_cond_yield_neon > >> >> > >> > >> I need to put the post patchup code somewhere too. Please refer to the > >> CRC patches for the best examples of this. > > > > I'm not sure I follow. If you need to do something different after > > patchup, can't you either pull that code into the if...endif too, or > > otherwise put a branch before the endif? > > > > No, not really. > > What I currently have is > > > if_cond_yield_neon > > // patchup code > > endif_cond_yield_neon > > which is being turned into > > get_thread_info x0 > ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] > ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] > cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET > csel x0, x0, xzr, eq > tbnz x0, #TIF_NEED_RESCHED, 5555f // needs rescheduling? > 4444: > > .subsection 1 > 5555: > // patchup code > bl kernel_neon_end > bl kernel_neon_begin > // post patchup code goes here > b 4444b > .subsection > > so what I basically need is a place to put the post patchup code, > unless I open code it and branch to a different label right after > kernel_neon_begin Ah, I get you. I had convinced myself that there was only post- patchup code. So you conceptually want something like if_will_cond_yield_neon // pre-yield patchup code do_cond_yield_neon // post-yield patchup code endif_yield_neon .macro if_will_cond_yield_neon // do preempt_count == 1 && TIF_NEED_RESCHED check b.wont_yield 3432f .endm .macro do_cond_yield_neon bl kernel_neon_end bl kernel_neon_begin .endm .macro endif_yield_neon 3432: .endm The main difference I see is that this doesn't get the slow-case code out of line. Or have I still missed something? Cheers ---Dave IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 12:25:44PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 12:12, Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:57:12AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On 6 December 2017 at 11:51, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:04:34PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> >> On 5 December 2017 at 12:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> On 5 Dec 2017, at 12:28, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote: [...] > >> >> >> If we had > >> >> >> > >> >> >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> >> >> // patchup code > >> >> >> endif_yield_neon > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> I like this, but ... > >> >> > >> >> >> then the caller is free to conditionally branch over that as appropriate > >> >> >> like > >> >> >> > >> >> >> loop: > >> >> >> // crypto stuff > >> >> >> tst x0, #0xf > >> >> >> b.ne loop > >> >> >> > >> >> >> if_cond_yield_neon > >> >> >> // patchup code > >> >> >> endif_cond_yield_neon > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> I need to put the post patchup code somewhere too. Please refer to the > >> >> CRC patches for the best examples of this. > >> > > >> > I'm not sure I follow. If you need to do something different after > >> > patchup, can't you either pull that code into the if...endif too, or > >> > otherwise put a branch before the endif? > >> > > >> > >> No, not really. > >> > >> What I currently have is > >> > >> > if_cond_yield_neon > >> > // patchup code > >> > endif_cond_yield_neon > >> > >> which is being turned into > >> > >> get_thread_info x0 > >> ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] > >> ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] > >> cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET > >> csel x0, x0, xzr, eq > >> tbnz x0, #TIF_NEED_RESCHED, 5555f // needs rescheduling? > >> 4444: > >> > >> .subsection 1 > >> 5555: > >> // patchup code > >> bl kernel_neon_end > >> bl kernel_neon_begin > >> // post patchup code goes here > >> b 4444b > >> .subsection > >> > >> so what I basically need is a place to put the post patchup code, > >> unless I open code it and branch to a different label right after > >> kernel_neon_begin > > > > Ah, I get you. I had convinced myself that there was only post- > > patchup code. > > > > So you conceptually want something like > > > > if_will_cond_yield_neon > > // pre-yield patchup code > > do_cond_yield_neon > > // post-yield patchup code > > endif_yield_neon > > > > .macro if_will_cond_yield_neon > > // do preempt_count == 1 && TIF_NEED_RESCHED check > > b.wont_yield 3432f > > .endm > > > > .macro do_cond_yield_neon > > bl kernel_neon_end > > bl kernel_neon_begin > > .endm > > > > .macro endif_yield_neon > > 3432: > > .endm > > > > The main difference I see is that this doesn't get the slow-case > > code out of line. > > > > Or have I still missed something? > > > > No, that seems accurate. I think the idiom looks much better, but I'd > still like to get the code out of line, so that everything disappears > completely for !CONFIG_PREEMPT. Sure, out-of-lining should still be possible by spilling into another section or subsection similarly to what you were already doing -- and it may still make sense to have (optional?) label arguments to allow some branch elision. I didn't want to complicate things initially. > I'll try to rework my stuff using this as a starting point. Cool, let me know. Cheers ---Dave
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h index aef72d886677..917b026d3e00 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h @@ -512,4 +512,54 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif #endif .endm +/* + * yield_neon - check whether to yield to another runnable task from + * kernel mode NEON code (running with preemption disabled) + * + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling + * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, + * yielding is pointless. + * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable + * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the + * yield fixup code at @lbl. + */ + .macro yield_neon, lbl:req, ctr, order, stride, loop + yield_neon_pre \ctr, \order, \stride, \loop + yield_neon_post \lbl + .endm + + .macro yield_neon_pre, ctr, order=0, stride, loop=4444f +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT + /* + * With some algorithms, it makes little sense to poll the + * TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag after every iteration, so only perform + * the check every 2^order strides. + */ + .if \order > 1 + .if (\stride & (\stride - 1)) != 0 + .error "stride should be a power of 2" + .endif + tst \ctr, #((1 << \order) * \stride - 1) & ~(\stride - 1) + b.ne \loop + .endif + + get_thread_info x0 + ldr w1, [x0, #TSK_TI_PREEMPT] + ldr x0, [x0, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] + cmp w1, #1 // == PREEMPT_OFFSET + csel x0, x0, xzr, eq + tbnz x0, #TIF_NEED_RESCHED, 5555f // needs rescheduling? +4444: +#endif + .subsection 1 +5555: + .endm + + .macro yield_neon_post, lbl:req + bl kernel_neon_end + bl kernel_neon_begin + b \lbl + .previous + .endm + #endif /* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H */
Add a support macro to conditionally yield the NEON (and thus the CPU) that may be called from the assembler code. Given that especially the instruction based accelerated crypto code may use very tight loops, add some parametrization so that the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag test is only executed every so many loop iterations. In some cases, yielding the NEON involves saving and restoring a non trivial amount of context (especially in the CRC folding algorithms), and so the macro is split into two, and the code in between is only executed when the yield path is taken, allowing the contex to be preserved. The second macro takes a label argument that marks the resume-from-yield path, which should restore the preserved context again. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) -- 2.11.0