Patch series "Optimize GCD performance on RISC-V by selecting
implementation at runtime", v3.
The current implementation of gcd() selects between the binary GCD and the
odd-even GCD algorithm at compile time, depending on whether
CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS is set. On platforms like RISC-V, however,
this compile-time decision can be misleading: even when the compiler emits
ctz instructions based on the assumption that they are efficient (as is
the case when CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB is enabled), the actual hardware may
lack support for the Zbb extension. In such cases, ffs() falls back to a
software implementation at runtime, making the binary GCD algorithm
significantly slower than the odd-even variant.
To address this, we introduce a static key to allow runtime selection
between the binary and odd-even GCD implementations. On RISC-V, the
kernel now checks for Zbb support during boot. If Zbb is unavailable, the
static key is disabled so that gcd() consistently uses the more efficient
odd-even algorithm in that scenario. Additionally, to further reduce code
size, we select CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS automatically when
CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB is not enabled, avoiding compilation of the unused
binary GCD implementation entirely on systems where it would never be
executed.
This series ensures that the most efficient GCD algorithm is used in
practice and avoids compiling unnecessary code based on hardware
capabilities and kernel configuration.
This patch (of 3):
On platforms like RISC-V, the compiler may generate hardware FFS
instructions even if the underlying CPU does not actually support them.
Currently, the GCD implementation is chosen at compile time based on
CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS, which can result in suboptimal behavior on
such systems.
Introduce a static key, efficient_ffs_key, to enable runtime selection
between the binary GCD (using ffs) and the odd-even GCD implementation.
This allows the kernel to default to the faster binary GCD when FFS is
efficient, while retaining the ability to fall back when needed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606134758.1308400-1-visitorckw@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606134758.1308400-2-visitorckw@gmail.com
Co-developed-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Ching-Chun (Jim) Huang <jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Be sure to test the extreme cases with and without bias.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Many singleton patches - please see the various changelogs for
details.
Quite a lot of nilfs2 work this time around.
Notable patch series in this pull request are:
- "mul_u64_u64_div_u64: new implementation" by Nicolas Pitre, with
assistance from Uwe Kleine-König. Reimplement mul_u64_u64_div_u64()
to provide (much) more accurate results. The current implementation
was causing Uwe some issues in the PWM drivers.
- "xz: Updates to license, filters, and compression options" from
Lasse Collin. Miscellaneous maintenance and kinor feature work to
the xz decompressor.
- "Fix some GDB command error and add some GDB commands" from
Kuan-Ying Lee. Fixes and enhancements to the gdb scripts.
- "treewide: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros" from Jeff
Johnson. Adds lots of MODULE_DESCRIPTIONs, thus fixing lots of
warnings about this.
- "nilfs2: add support for some common ioctls" from Ryusuke Konishi.
Adds various commonly-available ioctls to nilfs2.
- "This series fixes a number of formatting issues in kernel doc
comments" from Ryusuke Konishi does that.
- "nilfs2: prevent unexpected ENOENT propagation" from Ryusuke
Konishi. Fix issues where -ENOENT was being unintentionally and
inappropriately returned to userspace.
- "nilfs2: assorted cleanups" from Huang Xiaojia.
- "nilfs2: fix potential issues with empty b-tree nodes" from Ryusuke
Konishi fixes some issues which can occur on corrupted nilfs2
filesystems.
- "scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: improve error reporting and
usability" from Luca Ceresoli does those things"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-09-21-07-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (103 commits)
list: test: increase coverage of list_test_list_replace*()
list: test: fix tests for list_cut_position()
proc: use __auto_type more
treewide: correct the typo 'retun'
ocfs2: cleanup return value and mlog in ocfs2_global_read_info()
nilfs2: remove duplicate 'unlikely()' usage
nilfs2: fix potential oob read in nilfs_btree_check_delete()
nilfs2: determine empty node blocks as corrupted
nilfs2: fix potential null-ptr-deref in nilfs_btree_insert()
user_namespace: use kmemdup_array() instead of kmemdup() for multiple allocation
tools/mm: rm thp_swap_allocator_test when make clean
squashfs: fix percpu address space issues in decompressor_multi_percpu.c
lib: glob.c: added null check for character class
nilfs2: refactor nilfs_segctor_thread()
nilfs2: use kthread_create and kthread_stop for the log writer thread
nilfs2: remove sc_timer_task
nilfs2: do not repair reserved inode bitmap in nilfs_new_inode()
nilfs2: eliminate the shared counter and spinlock for i_generation
nilfs2: separate inode type information from i_state field
nilfs2: use the BITS_PER_LONG macro
...
Adds test suite for integer based power function which performs integer
exponentiation.
The test suite is designed to verify that the implementation of int_pow
correctly computes the power of a given base raised to a given exponent.
The tests check various scenarios and edge cases to ensure the accuracy
and reliability of the exponentiation function.
Updated commit with test information at commit time: Shuah Khan
Signed-off-by: Luis Felipe Hernandez <luis.hernandez093@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Patch series "mul_u64_u64_div_u64: new implementation", v3.
This provides an implementation for mul_u64_u64_div_u64() that always
produces exact results.
This patch (of 2):
Library facilities must always return exact results. If the caller may be
contented with approximations then it should do the approximation on its
own.
In this particular case the comment in the code says "the algorithm
... below might lose some precision". Well, if you try it with e.g.:
a = 18446462598732840960
b = 18446462598732840960
c = 18446462598732840961
then the produced answer is 0 whereas the exact answer should be
18446462598732840959. This is _some_ precision lost indeed!
Let's reimplement this function so it always produces the exact result
regardless of its inputs while preserving existing fast paths when
possible.
Uwe said:
: My personal interest is to get the calculations in pwm drivers right.
: This function is used in several drivers below drivers/pwm/ . With the
: errors in mul_u64_u64_div_u64(), pwm consumers might not get the
: settings they request. Although I have to admit that I'm not aware it
: breaks real use cases (because typically the periods used are too short
: to make the involved multiplications overflow), but I pretty sure am
: not aware of all usages and it breaks testing.
:
: Another justification is commits like
: https://git.kernel.org/tip/77baa5bafcbe1b2a15ef9c37232c21279c95481c,
: where people start to work around the precision shortcomings of
: mul_u64_u64_div_u64().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240707190648.1982714-1-nico@fluxnic.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240707190648.1982714-2-nico@fluxnic.net
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Tested-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation",
Kuan-Wei Chiu has significantly reworked the min_heap library code
and has taught bcachefs to use the new more generic implementation.
- Yury Norov's series "Cleanup cpumask.h inclusion in core headers"
reworks the cpumask and nodemask headers to make things generally
more rational.
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has sent along some maintenance work against our
sorting library code in the series "lib/sort: Optimizations and
cleanups".
- More library maintainance work from Christophe Jaillet in the series
"Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API".
- Ryusuke Konishi continues with the nilfs2 fixes and clanups in the
series "nilfs2: eliminate the call to inode_attach_wb()".
- Kuan-Ying Lee has some fixes to the gdb scripts in the series "Fix
GDB command error".
- Plus the usual shower of singleton patches all over the place. Please
see the relevant changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-07-21-15-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (98 commits)
ia64: scrub ia64 from poison.h
watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter
tsacct: replace strncpy() with strscpy()
lib/bch.c: use swap() to improve code
test_bpf: convert comma to semicolon
init/modpost: conditionally check section mismatch to __meminit*
init: remove unused __MEMINIT* macros
nilfs2: Constify struct kobj_type
nilfs2: avoid undefined behavior in nilfs_cnt32_ge macro
math: rational: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
lib/zlib: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
fs: ufs: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
lib/rbtree.c: fix the example typo
ocfs2: add bounds checking to ocfs2_check_dir_entry()
fs: add kernel-doc comments to ocfs2_prepare_orphan_dir()
coredump: simplify zap_process()
selftests/fpu: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
compiler.h: simplify data_race() macro
build-id: require program headers to be right after ELF header
resource: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
...
The number of times yet another open coded
`BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits) * sizeof(long)` can be spotted is huge.
Some generic helper is long overdue.
Add one, bitmap_size(), but with one detail.
BITS_TO_LONGS() uses DIV_ROUND_UP(). The latter works well when both
divident and divisor are compile-time constants or when the divisor
is not a pow-of-2. When it is however, the compilers sometimes tend
to generate suboptimal code (GCC 13):
48 83 c0 3f add $0x3f,%rax
48 c1 e8 06 shr $0x6,%rax
48 8d 14 c5 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(,%rax,8),%rdx
%BITS_PER_LONG is always a pow-2 (either 32 or 64), but GCC still does
full division of `nbits + 63` by it and then multiplication by 8.
Instead of BITS_TO_LONGS(), use ALIGN() and then divide by 8. GCC:
8d 50 3f lea 0x3f(%rax),%edx
c1 ea 03 shr $0x3,%edx
81 e2 f8 ff ff 1f and $0x1ffffff8,%edx
Now it shifts `nbits + 63` by 3 positions (IOW performs fast division
by 8) and then masks bits[2:0]. bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 20/133 up/down: 156/-773 (-617)
Clang does it better and generates the same code before/after starting
from -O1, except that with the ALIGN() approach it uses %edx and thus
still saves some bytes:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 9/133 up/down: 18/-538 (-520)
Note that we can't expand DIV_ROUND_UP() by adding a check and using
this approach there, as it's used in array declarations where
expressions are not allowed.
Add this helper to tools/ as well.
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix the kernel-doc markings for div64 functions to point to the header
file instead of the lib/ directory. This avoids having implementation
specific comments in generic documentation. Furthermore, given that
some kernel-doc comments are identical, drop them from lib/math64 and
only keep there comments that add implementation details.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118182309.3824530-1-liambeguin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
If the input is out of the range of the allowed values, either larger than
the largest value or closer to zero than the smallest non-zero allowed
value, then a division by zero would occur.
In the case of input too large, the division by zero will occur on the
first iteration. The best result (largest allowed value) will be found by
always choosing the semi-convergent and excluding the denominator based
limit when finding it.
In the case of the input too small, the division by zero will occur on the
second iteration. The numerator based semi-convergent should not be
calculated to avoid the division by zero. But the semi-convergent vs
previous convergent test is still needed, which effectively chooses
between 0 (the previous convergent) vs the smallest allowed fraction (best
semi-convergent) as the result.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525144250.214670-1-tpiepho@gmail.com
Fixes: 323dd2c3ed ("lib/math/rational.c: fix possible incorrect result from rational fractions helper")
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yiyuan Guo <yguoaz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oskar Schirmer <oskar@scara.com>
Cc: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull MIPS updates from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
- removed get_fs/set_fs
- removed broken/unmaintained MIPS KVM trap and emulate support
- added support for Loongson-2K1000
- fixes and cleanups
* tag 'mips_5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (107 commits)
MIPS: BCM63XX: Use BUG_ON instead of condition followed by BUG.
MIPS: select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK unconditionally
mips: Do not include hi and lo in clobber list for R6
MIPS:DTS:Correct the license for Loongson-2K
MIPS:DTS:Fix label name and interrupt number of ohci for Loongson-2K
MIPS: Avoid handcoded DIVU in `__div64_32' altogether
lib/math/test_div64: Correct the spelling of "dividend"
lib/math/test_div64: Fix error message formatting
mips/bootinfo:correct some comments of fw_arg
MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64_32' is result would be zero
MIPS: Reinstate platform `__div64_32' handler
div64: Correct inline documentation for `do_div'
lib/math: Add a `do_div' test module
MIPS: Makefile: Replace -pg with CC_FLAGS_FTRACE
MIPS: pci-legacy: revert "use generic pci_enable_resources"
MIPS: Loongson64: Add kexec/kdump support
MIPS: pci-legacy: use generic pci_enable_resources
MIPS: pci-legacy: remove busn_resource field
MIPS: pci-legacy: remove redundant info messages
MIPS: pci-legacy: stop using of_pci_range_to_resource
...
