Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:30:31 +0200 | From | Thomas Bogendoerfer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Take in account load hazards for HI/LO restoring |
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 07:20:27PM +0300, Siarhei Volkau wrote: > > 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@gmail.com> > > --- > > 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) > > isn't that just #ifndef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6 ?
and if yes, I prefer to have the same structure as for the move to registers later like
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS . do the SMARTMIPS things elif !defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6) . do normal hi/lo #endif
that way it's more clear whats happening depending on selected options.
Thomas.
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