On 29-11-2018 21:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:14 PM Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> --->8--
>> static noinline void test_readsl(char *buf, int len)
>> {
>> readsl(0xdeadbeef, buf, len);
>> }
>> --->8---
>>
>> And the disassembly:
>> --->8---
>> 00000e88 <test_readsl>:
>> e88: breq.dr1,0,eac <0xeac> /* if (count) */
>> e8c: and r2,r0,3
>>
>> e90: mov_s lp_count,r1 /* r1 = count */
>> e92: brne r2,0,eb0 <0xeb0> /* if (bptr % ((t) / 8)) */
>>
>> e96: sub r0,r0,4
>> e9a: nop_s
>>
>> e9c: lp eac <0xeac> /* first loop */
>> ea0: ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]
>> ea8: st.a r2,[r0,4]
>> eac: j_s [blink]
>> eae: nop_s
>>
>> eb0: lp ed6 <0xed6> /* second loop */
>> eb4: ld r2,[0xdeadbeef]
>> ebc: lsr r5,r2,8
>> ec0: lsr r4,r2,16
>> ec4: lsr r3,r2,24
>> ec8: stb_s r2,[r0,0]
>> eca: stb r5,[r0,1]
>> ece: stb r4,[r0,2]
>> ed2: stb_s r3,[r0,3]
>> ed4: add_s r0,r0,4
>> ed6: j_s [blink]
>>
>> --->8---
>>
>> See how the if condition added in this version is checked in
>> <test_readsl+0xe92> and then it takes two different loops.
> This looks good to me. I wonder what the result is for CPUs
> that /do/ support unaligned accesses. Normally put_unaligned()
> should fall back to a simple store in that case, but I'm not
> sure it can fold the two stores back into one and skip the
> alignment check. Probably not worth overoptimizing for that
> case (the MMIO access latency should be much higher than
> anything you could gain here), but I'm still curious about
> how well our get/put_unaligned macros work.
Here is disassembly for an ARC CPU that supports unaligned accesses:
-->8---
00000d48 <test_readsl>:
d48: breq_s r1,0,28 /* if (count) */
d4a: tst r0,0x3
d4e: bne_s 32 /* if (bptr % ((t) / 8)) */
d50: ld r2,[0xdeadbeef] /* first loop */
d58: sub_s r1,r1,0x1
d5a: tst_s r1,r1
d5c: bne.d -12
d60: st.ab r2,[r0,4]
d64: dmb 0x1 /* common exit point */
d68: j_s [blink]
d6a: nop_s
d6c: ld r2,[0xdeadbeef] /* second loop */
d74: sub_s r1,r1,0x1
d76: tst_s r1,r1
d78: bne.d -12
d7c: st.ab r2,[r0,4]
d80: b_s -28 /* jmp to 0xd64 */
d82: nop_s
--->8---
Notice how first and second loop are exactly equal ...
Thanks and Best Regards,
Jose Miguel Abreu
>
> Arnd
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