From e1a35d404f4ec7000ee62f892a532753a626d6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jisheng Zhang Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 07:53:10 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() for !RISCV_ISA_ZBB Current find_zero() heavily depends on fls64() for calculation. This bring non-optimal code when !RISCV_ISA_ZBB. But in word-at-a-time case, we don't have to go with fls64() code path, instead, we can fallback to the generic word-at-a-time implementaion. What's more, the fls64() brings non-necessary zero bits couting for RV32. In fact, fls() is enough. Before the patch: 0000000000000000 : 0: c529 beqz a0,4a <.L1> 2: 577d li a4,-1 4: 9301 srli a4,a4,0x20 6: 03f00793 li a5,63 a: 00a76463 bltu a4,a0,12 <.L3> e: 1502 slli a0,a0,0x20 10: 47fd li a5,31 0000000000000012 <.L3>: 12: 577d li a4,-1 14: 8341 srli a4,a4,0x10 16: 00a76463 bltu a4,a0,1e <.L4> 1a: 37c1 addiw a5,a5,-16 1c: 0542 slli a0,a0,0x10 000000000000001e <.L4>: 1e: 577d li a4,-1 20: 8321 srli a4,a4,0x8 22: 00a76463 bltu a4,a0,2a <.L5> 26: 37e1 addiw a5,a5,-8 28: 0522 slli a0,a0,0x8 000000000000002a <.L5>: 2a: 577d li a4,-1 2c: 8311 srli a4,a4,0x4 2e: 00a76463 bltu a4,a0,36 <.L6> 32: 37f1 addiw a5,a5,-4 34: 0512 slli a0,a0,0x4 0000000000000036 <.L6>: 36: 577d li a4,-1 38: 8309 srli a4,a4,0x2 3a: 00a76463 bltu a4,a0,42 <.L7> 3e: 37f9 addiw a5,a5,-2 40: 050a slli a0,a0,0x2 0000000000000042 <.L7>: 42: 00054563 bltz a0,4c <.L12> 46: 4037d51b sraiw a0,a5,0x3 000000000000004a <.L1>: 4a: 8082 ret 000000000000004c <.L12>: 4c: 2785 addiw a5,a5,1 4e: 4037d51b sraiw a0,a5,0x3 52: 8082 ret After the patch: 0000000000000000 : 0: 102037b7 lui a5,0x10203 4: 0792 slli a5,a5,0x4 6: 40578793 addi a5,a5,1029 # 10203405 <.L4+0x102033c5> a: 07c2 slli a5,a5,0x10 c: 60878793 addi a5,a5,1544 10: 02f50533 mul a0,a0,a5 14: 9161 srli a0,a0,0x38 16: 8082 ret 33 instructions vs 8 instructions! And this kind of instructions reducing dramatically improves the performance of below micro-benchmark: $ cat tt.c #inlcude #inlcude "word-at-a-time.h" // copy and modify, eg. remove other headers int main() { int i; unsigned long ret = 0; for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) ret |= find_zero(0xabcd123 + i); printf("%ld\n", ret); } $ gcc -O tt.c $ time ./a.out Per my test, the above micro-benchmark is improved by about 1150%! Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Linux RISC-V bot --- arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h index 3802cda71ab7ee..1dcac57a73dddb 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -39,9 +39,36 @@ static inline unsigned long create_zero_mask(unsigned long bits) return bits >> 7; } +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT +/* + * Jan Achrenius on G+: microoptimized version of + * the simpler "(mask & ONEBYTES) * ONEBYTES >> 56" + * that works for the bytemasks without having to + * mask them first. + */ +static inline long count_masked_bytes(unsigned long mask) +{ + return mask*0x0001020304050608ul >> 56; +} + +#else /* 32-bit case */ + +/* Carl Chatfield / Jan Achrenius G+ version for 32-bit */ +static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask) +{ + /* (000000 0000ff 00ffff ffffff) -> ( 1 1 2 3 ) */ + long a = (0x0ff0001+mask) >> 23; + /* Fix the 1 for 00 case */ + return a & mask; +} +#endif + static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask) { - return fls64(mask) >> 3; + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB)) + return fls64(mask) >> 3; + + return count_masked_bytes(mask); } /* The mask we created is directly usable as a bytemask */ From 16ceb820014b8993f9026af460cefa7e8b726006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jisheng Zhang Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 07:53:11 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() without Zbb Previous commit improved the find_zero() performance for !RISCV_ISA_ZBB. What about RISCV_ISA_ZBB=y but the HW doesn't support Zbb? We have the same heavy generic fls64() issue. Let's improve this situation by checking Zbb extension and fall back to generic count_masked_bytes() if Zbb isn't supported. To remove non-necessary zero bits couting on RV32, we also replace the 'fls64(mask) >> 3' with '!mask ? 0 : ((__fls(mask) + 1) >> 3);' We will get similar performance improvement as previous commit for RISCV_ISA_ZBB=y but HW doesn't support Zbb. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Linux RISC-V bot --- arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h index 1dcac57a73dddb..f2d16c1eea8d55 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask) static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask) { - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB)) - return fls64(mask) >> 3; + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB) && + riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB)) + return !mask ? 0 : ((__fls(mask) + 1) >> 3); return count_masked_bytes(mask); } From d797e202c86eb0c752d2ff43570ed233fe1bad3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jisheng Zhang Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 07:53:12 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] riscv: word-at-a-time: improve find_zero() for Zbb In commit f915a3e5b018 ("arm64: word-at-a-time: improve byte count calculations for LE"), Linus improved the find_zero() for arm64 LE. Do the same optimization as he did: "do __ffs() on the intermediate value that found whether there is a zero byte, before we've actually computed the final byte mask.", so that we share the similar improvements: "The difference between the old and the new implementation is that "count_zero()" ends up scheduling better because it is being done on a value that is available earlier (before the final mask). But more importantly, it can be implemented without the insane semantics of the standard bit finding helpers that have the off-by-one issue and have to special-case the zero mask situation." Before the patch: 0000000000000000 : 0: c909 beqz a0,12 <.L1> 2: 60051793 clz a5,a0 6: 03f00513 li a0,63 a: 8d1d sub a0,a0,a5 c: 2505 addiw a0,a0,1 e: 4035551b sraiw a0,a0,0x3 0000000000000012 <.L1>: 12: 8082 ret After the patch: 0000000000000000 : 0: 60151513 ctz a0,a0 4: 810d srli a0,a0,0x3 6: 8082 ret 7 instructions vs 3 instructions! As can be seen, on RV64 w/ Zbb, the new "find_zero()" ends up just "ctz" plus the shift right that then ends up being subsumed by the "add to final length". But I have no HW platform which supports Zbb, so I can't get the performance improvement numbers by the last patch, only built and tested the patch on QEMU. Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang Signed-off-by: Linux RISC-V bot --- arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h index f2d16c1eea8d55..31240133eccdef 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ static inline unsigned long prep_zero_mask(unsigned long val, static inline unsigned long create_zero_mask(unsigned long bits) { + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB) && + riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB)) + return bits; + bits = (bits - 1) & ~bits; return bits >> 7; } @@ -67,13 +71,21 @@ static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask) { if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB) && riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB)) - return !mask ? 0 : ((__fls(mask) + 1) >> 3); + return __ffs(mask) >> 3; return count_masked_bytes(mask); } -/* The mask we created is directly usable as a bytemask */ -#define zero_bytemask(mask) (mask) +static inline unsigned long zero_bytemask(unsigned long bits) +{ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_ZBB) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZBB) && + riscv_has_extension_likely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBB)) { + bits = (bits - 1) & ~bits; + return bits >> 7; + } + + return bits; +} #ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS