Message ID | 20190210161726.5454-3-andre.przywara@arm.com |
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State | Changes Requested |
Delegated to: | Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki |
Headers | show |
Series | arm: Introduce writel/readl_relaxed accessors | expand |
On 02/10/2019 05:17 PM, Andre Przywara wrote: > The normal MMIO accessor macros (readX/writeX) guarantee a strong ordering, > even with normal memory accesses: https://lwn.net/Articles/698014/ > For some MMIO operations (framebuffers being a prominent example) this is > not needed, and the rather costly barrier inserted on weakly ordered > systems like ARM costs some performance. > To mitigate this issue, Linux introduced readX_relaxed and > writeX_relaxed primitives, which only guarantee ordering between each > other, so are typically faster due to the missing barrier. > > We probably do not care so much about performance in U-Boot, but want to > have those primitives for two other reasons: > - Being able to use the _relaxed macros simplifies porting drivers from > Linux. > - The missing barrier typically allows to generate smaller code, which can > relieve some chronically tight SPL builds. > > Add those macros definitions by using the __raw versions of the > accessors, which matches an earlier (and less complicated) version of > the Linux implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com> > [On my experimental RK3399 after modifying a few drivers:] > Tested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Alex
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h index bcbaf0d83c..5b24b88efc 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h @@ -98,11 +98,21 @@ static inline void __raw_readsl(unsigned long addr, void *data, int longlen) #define writel(v,c) ({ u32 __v = v; __iowmb(); __arch_putl(__v,c); __v; }) #define writeq(v,c) ({ u64 __v = v; __iowmb(); __arch_putq(__v,c); __v; }) +#define writeb_relaxed(v,c) __raw_writeb(v, c) +#define writew_relaxed(v,c) __raw_writew(v, c) +#define writel_relaxed(v,c) __raw_writel(v, c) +#define writeq_relaxed(v,c) __raw_writeq(v, c) + #define readb(c) ({ u8 __v = __arch_getb(c); __iormb(); __v; }) #define readw(c) ({ u16 __v = __arch_getw(c); __iormb(); __v; }) #define readl(c) ({ u32 __v = __arch_getl(c); __iormb(); __v; }) #define readq(c) ({ u64 __v = __arch_getq(c); __iormb(); __v; }) +#define readb_relaxed(c) __raw_readb(c) +#define readw_relaxed(c) __raw_readw(c) +#define readl_relaxed(c) __raw_readl(c) +#define readq_relaxed(c) __raw_readq(c) + /* * The compiler seems to be incapable of optimising constants * properly. Spell it out to the compiler in some cases.