[dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH v2 4/5] common/octeontx2: fix build with sve enabled

Ruifeng Wang Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com
Mon Jan 11 10:51:54 CET 2021


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 6:29 PM
> To: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; jerinj at marvell.com; Nithin
> Kumar Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com;
> hemant.agrawal at nxp.com; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH v2 4/5] common/octeontx2: fix build with sve
> enabled
> 
> Hi Ruifeng,
> 
> >Building with gcc 10.2 with SVE extension enabled got error:
> >
> >{standard input}: Assembler messages:
> >{standard input}:4002: Error: selected processor does not support `mov
> >z3.b,#0'
> >{standard input}:4003: Error: selected processor does not support
> >`whilelo p1.b,xzr,x7'
> >{standard input}:4005: Error: selected processor does not support `ld1b
> >z0.b,p1/z,[x8]'
> >{standard input}:4006: Error: selected processor does not support
> >`whilelo p4.s,wzr,w7'
> >
> >This is because inline assembly code explicitly resets cpu model to not
> >have SVE support. Thus SVE instructions generated by compiler auto
> >vectorization got rejected by assembler.
> >
> >Fixed the issue by replacing inline assembly with equivalent atomic
> >built-ins. Compiler will generate LSE instructions for cpu that has the
> >extension.
> >
> >Fixes: 8a4f835971f5 ("common/octeontx2: add IO handling APIs")
> >Cc: jerinj at marvell.com
> >Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> >---
> > drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_io_arm64.h | 37 +++--------------------
> >-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_io_arm64.h
> >b/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_io_arm64.h
> >index b5c85d9a6..8843a79b5 100644
> >--- a/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_io_arm64.h
> >+++ b/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_io_arm64.h
> >@@ -24,55 +24,26 @@
> > static __rte_always_inline uint64_t
> > otx2_atomic64_add_nosync(int64_t incr, int64_t *ptr)  {
> >-	uint64_t result;
> >-
> > 	/* Atomic add with no ordering */
> >-	asm volatile (
> >-		".cpu  generic+lse\n"
> >-		"ldadd %x[i], %x[r], [%[b]]"
> >-		: [r] "=r" (result), "+m" (*ptr)
> >-		: [i] "r" (incr), [b] "r" (ptr)
> >-		: "memory");
> >-	return result;
> >+	return (uint64_t)__atomic_fetch_add(ptr, incr,
> >__ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> >
> 
> Here LDADD acts as a way to interface to co-processors i.e.
> LDADD instruction opcode + specific io address are recognized by HW
> interceptor and dispatched to the specific coprocessor.

OK. Now I understand the background.
> 
> Leaving it to the compiler to use the correct instruction is a bad idea.
> This breaks the arm64_armv8_linux_gcc build as it doesn't have the
> +lse enabled.
> __atomic_fetch_add will generate a different instruction with SVE enabled.
> 
> Instead can we add +sve to the first line to prevent outer loop from
> optimizing out the trap?

Since the inline assembly needs to be preserved, we have to tune the enabled extensions.
I will change in next version.

Thanks,
Ruifeng
> 
> I tested with 10.2 and n2 config below change works fine.
> -" .cpu          generic+lse\n"
> +" .cpu		generic+lse+sve\n"
> 
> Regards,
> Pavan.
> 
> > static __rte_always_inline uint64_t
> > otx2_atomic64_add_sync(int64_t incr, int64_t *ptr)  {
> >-	uint64_t result;
> >-
> >-	/* Atomic add with ordering */
> >-	asm volatile (
> >-		".cpu  generic+lse\n"
> >-		"ldadda %x[i], %x[r], [%[b]]"
> >-		: [r] "=r" (result), "+m" (*ptr)
> >-		: [i] "r" (incr), [b] "r" (ptr)
> >-		: "memory");
> >-	return result;
> >+	return (uint64_t)__atomic_fetch_add(ptr, incr,
> >__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
> > }
> >
> > static __rte_always_inline uint64_t
> > otx2_lmt_submit(rte_iova_t io_address)  {
> >-	uint64_t result;
> >-
> >-	asm volatile (
> >-		".cpu  generic+lse\n"
> >-		"ldeor xzr,%x[rf],[%[rs]]" :
> >-		 [rf] "=r"(result): [rs] "r"(io_address));
> >-	return result;
> >+	return __atomic_fetch_xor((uint64_t *)io_address, 0,
> >__ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> >
> > static __rte_always_inline uint64_t
> > otx2_lmt_submit_release(rte_iova_t io_address)  {
> >-	uint64_t result;
> >-
> >-	asm volatile (
> >-		".cpu  generic+lse\n"
> >-		"ldeorl xzr,%x[rf],[%[rs]]" :
> >-		 [rf] "=r"(result) : [rs] "r"(io_address));
> >-	return result;
> >+	return __atomic_fetch_xor((uint64_t *)io_address, 0,
> >__ATOMIC_RELEASE);
> > }
> >
> > static __rte_always_inline void
> >--
> >2.25.1



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