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It is not sufficient to check if a toolchain supports a particular
extension without checking if the linker supports that extension
too. For example, Clang 15 supports Zihintpause but GNU bintutils
2.35.2 does not, leading build errors like so:
riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: -march=rv64i2p0_m2p0_a2p0_c2p0_zihintpause2p0: Invalid or unknown z ISA extension: 'zihintpause'
Add a TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZIHINTPAUSE which checks if each of the compiler,
assembler and linker support the extension. Replace the ifdef in the
vdso with one depending on this new symbol.
Fixes: 8eb060e10185 ("arch/riscv: add Zihintpause support")
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006173520.1785507-3-conor@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Implement support for the ZiHintPause extension.
The PAUSE instruction is a HINT that indicates the current hart’s rate
of instruction retirement should be temporarily reduced or paused.
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: Dao Lu <daolu@rivosinc.com>
[Palmer: Some minor merge conflicts.]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220620201530.3929352-1-daolu@rivosinc.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811053356.17375-1-palmer@rivosinc.com/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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riscv's <vdso/processor.h> uses barrier() so it should include
<asm/barrier.h>
Fixes this build error:
CC [M] drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.o
In file included from ./include/vdso/processor.h:10,
from ./arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h:11,
from ./include/linux/prefetch.h:15,
from drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c:14:
./arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h: In function 'cpu_relax':
./arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h:14:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'barrier' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
14 | barrier();
This happens with a total of 5 networking drivers -- they all use
<linux/prefetch.h>.
rv64 allmodconfig now builds cleanly after this patch.
Fixes fallout from:
815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h mutually exclusive")
Fixes: ad5d1122b82f ("riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions")
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Even if RISC-V has supported the vDSO feature, the latency of the functions
for obtaining the system time is still expensive. It is because these
functions still trigger a corresponding system call in the process, which
slows down the response time. If we want to remove the system call to
reduce the latency, the kernel should have the ability to output the system
clock information to userspace. This patch introduces the vDSO common flow
to enable the kernel to achieve the above feature and uses "rdtime"
instruction to obtain the current time in the user space. Under this
condition, the latency cost by the ecall from U-mode to S-mode can be
eliminated. After applying this patch, the latency of gettimeofday()
measured on the HiFive unleashed board can be reduced by %61.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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