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[PATCHv3] arm64: fpsimd: avoid restoring fpcr if the contents haven't changed

Message ID 1404992409-6968-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
State Accepted
Commit 5959e25729a521097856d71528504deda1e11584
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Will Deacon July 10, 2014, 11:40 a.m. UTC
Writing to the FPCR is commonly implemented as a self-synchronising
operation in the CPU, so avoid writing to the register when the saved
value matches that in the hardware already.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Ard Biesheuvel July 11, 2014, 7:35 a.m. UTC | #1
On 10 July 2014 13:40, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Writing to the FPCR is commonly implemented as a self-synchronising
> operation in the CPU, so avoid writing to the register when the saved
> value matches that in the hardware already.
>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

Hi Will,

This works fine as far as I can tell.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
index 768414d55e64..007618b8188c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
@@ -40,6 +40,19 @@ 
 	str	w\tmpnr, [\state, #16 * 2 + 4]
 .endm
 
+.macro fpsimd_restore_fpcr state, tmp
+	/*
+	 * Writes to fpcr may be self-synchronising, so avoid restoring
+	 * the register if it hasn't changed.
+	 */
+	mrs	\tmp, fpcr
+	cmp	\tmp, \state
+	b.eq	9999f
+	msr	fpcr, \state
+9999:
+.endm
+
+/* Clobbers \state */
 .macro fpsimd_restore state, tmpnr
 	ldp	q0, q1, [\state, #16 * 0]
 	ldp	q2, q3, [\state, #16 * 2]
@@ -60,7 +73,7 @@ 
 	ldr	w\tmpnr, [\state, #16 * 2]
 	msr	fpsr, x\tmpnr
 	ldr	w\tmpnr, [\state, #16 * 2 + 4]
-	msr	fpcr, x\tmpnr
+	fpsimd_restore_fpcr x\tmpnr, \state
 .endm
 
 .altmacro
@@ -84,7 +97,7 @@ 
 .macro fpsimd_restore_partial state, tmpnr1, tmpnr2
 	ldp	w\tmpnr1, w\tmpnr2, [\state]
 	msr	fpsr, x\tmpnr1
-	msr	fpcr, x\tmpnr2
+	fpsimd_restore_fpcr x\tmpnr2, x\tmpnr1
 	adr	x\tmpnr1, 0f
 	ldr	w\tmpnr2, [\state, #8]
 	add	\state, \state, x\tmpnr2, lsl #4