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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64: save movk instructions in mov_q when the lower 16|32 bits are all zero
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:48:30PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> Currently mov_q is used to move a constant into a 64-bit register,
> when the lower 16 or 32bits of the constant are all zero, the mov_q
> emits one or two useless movk instructions. If the mov_q macro is used
> in hot code path, we want to save the movk instructions as much as
> possible. For example, when CONFIG_ARM64_MTE is 'Y' and
> CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is 'N', the following code in __cpu_setup()
> routine is the pontential optimization target:
>
> /* set the TCR_EL1 bits */
> mov_q x10, TCR_MTE_FLAGS
>
> Before the patch:
> mov x10, #0x10000000000000
> movk x10, #0x40, lsl #32
> movk x10, #0x0, lsl #16
> movk x10, #0x0
>
> After the patch:
> mov x10, #0x10000000000000
> movk x10, #0x40, lsl #32
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 8c5a61aeaf8e..09f408424cae 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -568,9 +568,13 @@ alternative_endif
> movz \reg, :abs_g3:\val
> movk \reg, :abs_g2_nc:\val
> .endif
> + .if ((((\val) >> 16) & 0xffff) != 0)
> movk \reg, :abs_g1_nc:\val
> .endif
> + .endif
> + .if (((\val) & 0xffff) != 0)
> movk \reg, :abs_g0_nc:\val
> + .endif

Please provide some numbers showing that this is worthwhile.

Will

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