arm-trusted-firmware/lib/cpus/aarch64/neoverse_e1.S
Boyan Karatotev 89dba82dfa perf(cpus): make reset errata do fewer branches
Errata application is painful for performance. For a start, it's done
when the core has just come out of reset, which means branch predictors
and caches will be empty so a branch to a workaround function must be
fetched from memory and that round trip is very slow. Then it also runs
with the I-cache off, which means that the loop to iterate over the
workarounds must also be fetched from memory on each iteration.

We can remove both branches. First, we can simply apply every erratum
directly instead of defining a workaround function and jumping to it.
Currently, no errata that need to be applied at both reset and runtime,
with the same workaround function, exist. If the need arose in future,
this should be achievable with a reset + runtime wrapper combo.

Then, we can construct a function that applies each erratum linearly
instead of looping over the list. If this function is part of the reset
function, then the only "far" branches at reset will be for the checker
functions. Importantly, this mitigates the slowdown even when an erratum
is disabled.

The result is ~50% speedup on N1SDP and ~20% on AArch64 Juno on wakeup
from PSCI calls that end in powerdown. This is roughly back to the
baseline of v2.9, before the errata framework regressed on performance
(or a little better). It is important to note that there are other
slowdowns since then that remain unknown.

Change-Id: Ie4d5288a331b11fd648e5c4a0b652b74160b07b9
Signed-off-by: Boyan Karatotev <boyan.karatotev@arm.com>
2025-02-24 09:36:11 +00:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2018-2025, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
*/
#include <arch.h>
#include <asm_macros.S>
#include <common/bl_common.h>
#include <common/debug.h>
#include <dsu_macros.S>
#include <neoverse_e1.h>
#include <cpu_macros.S>
#include <plat_macros.S>
/* Hardware handled coherency */
#if HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY == 0
#error "Neoverse E1 must be compiled with HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY enabled"
#endif
/* 64-bit only core */
#if CTX_INCLUDE_AARCH32_REGS == 1
#error "Neoverse-E1 supports only AArch64. Compile with CTX_INCLUDE_AARCH32_REGS=0"
#endif
cpu_reset_prologue neoverse_e1
workaround_reset_start neoverse_e1, ERRATUM(936184), ERRATA_DSU_936184
errata_dsu_936184_wa_impl
workaround_reset_end neoverse_e1, ERRATUM(936184)
check_erratum_custom_start neoverse_e1, ERRATUM(936184)
branch_if_scu_not_present 2f /* label 1 is used in the macro */
check_errata_dsu_936184_impl
2:
ret
check_erratum_custom_end neoverse_e1, ERRATUM(936184)
cpu_reset_func_start neoverse_e1
cpu_reset_func_end neoverse_e1
func neoverse_e1_cpu_pwr_dwn
mrs x0, NEOVERSE_E1_CPUPWRCTLR_EL1
orr x0, x0, #NEOVERSE_E1_CPUPWRCTLR_EL1_CORE_PWRDN_BIT
msr NEOVERSE_E1_CPUPWRCTLR_EL1, x0
isb
ret
endfunc neoverse_e1_cpu_pwr_dwn
.section .rodata.neoverse_e1_regs, "aS"
neoverse_e1_regs: /* The ascii list of register names to be reported */
.asciz "cpuectlr_el1", ""
func neoverse_e1_cpu_reg_dump
adr x6, neoverse_e1_regs
mrs x8, NEOVERSE_E1_ECTLR_EL1
ret
endfunc neoverse_e1_cpu_reg_dump
declare_cpu_ops neoverse_e1, NEOVERSE_E1_MIDR, \
neoverse_e1_reset_func, \
neoverse_e1_cpu_pwr_dwn