From 36126f8f2ed8168eb13aa0662b9b9585cba100a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:43:17 -0700 Subject: word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic This changes the interfaces in to be a bit more complicated, but a lot more generic. In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of machine details. For example, if you can rely on a fast population count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your optimized file with that. NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian. Why? Because on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that. (The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version of it. And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular header file, that would be lovely) The functions are as follows: - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm uses. - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it. It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to an intermediate "data" field it can set. This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside the hot loops. - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced, and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had the first zero. This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte" question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the first one to contain a zero. If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask() phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either or" case. - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()" (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the zero byte). The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary for the normal string routines. But dentry name hashing needs it, so if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it. This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces. This gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in the previous commit when moving over to the generic version. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h index ae03facfadd6..5b238981542a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ * bit count instruction, that might be better than the multiply * and shift, for example. */ +struct word_at_a_time { + const unsigned long one_bits, high_bits; +}; + +#define WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS { REPEAT_BYTE(0x01), REPEAT_BYTE(0x80) } #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT @@ -37,10 +42,31 @@ static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask) #endif -/* Return the high bit set in the first byte that is a zero */ -static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a) +/* Return nonzero if it has a zero */ +static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a, unsigned long *bits, const struct word_at_a_time *c) +{ + unsigned long mask = ((a - c->one_bits) & ~a) & c->high_bits; + *bits = mask; + return mask; +} + +static inline unsigned long prep_zero_mask(unsigned long a, unsigned long bits, const struct word_at_a_time *c) +{ + return bits; +} + +static inline unsigned long create_zero_mask(unsigned long bits) +{ + bits = (bits - 1) & ~bits; + return bits >> 7; +} + +/* The mask we created is directly usable as a bytemask */ +#define zero_bytemask(mask) (mask) + +static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask) { - return ((a - REPEAT_BYTE(0x01)) & ~a) & REPEAT_BYTE(0x80); + return count_masked_bytes(mask); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3