Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Take in account load hazards for HI/LO restoring

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Ping. The patch looks abandoned.

Paul, could you recommend right persons / lists for that ?

чт, 12 окт. 2023 г. в 19:21, Siarhei Volkau <lis8215@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> MIPS CPUs usually have 1 to 4 cycles load hazards, thus doing load
> and right after move to HI/LO will usually stall the pipeline for
> significant amount of time. Let's take it into account and separate
> loads and mthi/lo in instruction sequence.
>
> The patch uses t6 and t7 registers as temporaries in addition to t8.
>
> The patch tries to deal with SmartMIPS, but I know little about and
> haven't tested it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Volkau <lis8215@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
> index a8705aef47e1..3821d91b00fd 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
> @@ -308,17 +308,11 @@
>                 jal     octeon_mult_restore
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
> -               LONG_L  $24, PT_ACX(sp)
> -               mtlhx   $24
> -               LONG_L  $24, PT_HI(sp)
> -               mtlhx   $24
> -               LONG_L  $24, PT_LO(sp)
> -               mtlhx   $24
> -#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
> +               LONG_L  $14, PT_ACX(sp)
> +#endif
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS) || !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
>                 LONG_L  $24, PT_LO(sp)
> -               mtlo    $24
> -               LONG_L  $24, PT_HI(sp)
> -               mthi    $24
> +               LONG_L  $15, PT_HI(sp)
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_32BIT
>                 cfi_ld  $8, PT_R8, \docfi
> @@ -327,6 +321,14 @@
>                 cfi_ld  $10, PT_R10, \docfi
>                 cfi_ld  $11, PT_R11, \docfi
>                 cfi_ld  $12, PT_R12, \docfi
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
> +               mtlhx   $14
> +               mtlhx   $15
> +               mtlhx   $24
> +#elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6)
> +               mtlo    $24
> +               mthi    $15
> +#endif
>                 cfi_ld  $13, PT_R13, \docfi
>                 cfi_ld  $14, PT_R14, \docfi
>                 cfi_ld  $15, PT_R15, \docfi
> --
> 2.41.0
>





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