[v3,0/4] riscv: uaccess: optimizations

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Cyril Bur Feb. 21, 2025, 12:09 a.m. UTC

This series tries to optimize riscv uaccess by allowing the use of
user_access_begin() and user_access_end() which permits grouping user accesses
and avoiding the CSR write penalty for each access.

The error path can also be optimised using asm goto which patches 3 and 4
achieve. This will speed up jumping to labels by avoiding the need of an
intermediary error type variable within the uaccess macros

I did read the discussion this series generated. It isn't clear to me
which direction to take the patches, if any.

V2:
I've taken on this series as there isn't any response from Jisheng. No
significant changes other than build fixes.
- Fixes build breakage in patch 3 to do with not having used 'goto' keyword.
- Fixes build breakage in patch 4 on 32bit not having delcared __ptr in the
  macro.

V3:
Significant commit message rewrites.
 - Corrected the justification for patch 2
 - Better explained/justified patches 3 and 4
Minor code changes for legibility and more comments.

Jisheng Zhang (4):
  riscv: implement user_access_begin() and families
  riscv: uaccess: use input constraints for ptr of __put_user()
  riscv: uaccess: use 'asm goto' for put_user()
  riscv: uaccess: use 'asm_goto_output' for get_user()

 arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h | 205 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 152 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)