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2011-12-12x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bitAlexey Dobriyan
Current i386 strlen() hardcodes NOT/DEC sequence. DEC is mentioned to be suboptimal on Core2. So, put only REPNE SCASB sequence in assembly, compiler can do the rest. The difference in generated code is like below (MCORE2=y): <strlen>: push %edi mov $0xffffffff,%ecx mov %eax,%edi xor %eax,%eax repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al not %ecx - dec %ecx - mov %ecx,%eax + lea -0x1(%ecx),%eax pop %edi ret Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111211181319.GA17097@p183.telecom.by Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formatsMasami Hiramatsu
Since new Intel software developers manual introduces new format for AVX instruction set (including AVX2), it is important to update x86-opcode-map.txt to fit those changes. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111205120557.15475.13236.stgit@cloud Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05x86: Fix instruction decoder to handle grouped AVX instructionsMasami Hiramatsu
For reducing memory usage of attribute table, x86 instruction decoder puts "Group" attribute only on "no-last-prefix" attribute table (same as vex_p == 0 case). Thus, the decoder should look no-last-prefix table first, and then only if it is not a group, move on to "with-last-prefix" table (vex_p != 0). However, current implementation, inat_get_avx_attribute() looks with-last-prefix directly. So, when decoding a grouped AVX instruction, the decoder fails to find correct group because there is no "Group" attribute on the table. This ends up with the mis-decoding of instructions, as Ingo reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1214103 This patch fixes it to check no-last-prefix table first even if that is an AVX instruction, and get an attribute from "with last-prefix" table only if that is not a group. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111205120539.15475.91428.stgit@cloud Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-10x86: Fix insn decoder for longer instructionMasami Hiramatsu
Fix x86 insn decoder for hardening against invalid length instructions. This adds length checkings for each byte-read site and if it exceeds MAX_INSN_SIZE, returns immediately. This can happen when decoding user-space binary. Caller can check whether it happened by checking insn.*.got member is set or not. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111007133155.10933.58577.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-23Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment Document the vDSO and add a reference parser ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys) x86-64: Map the HPET NX x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl x86-64: Give vvars their own page x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
2011-07-23Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issue x86: Unify rwsem assembly implementation x86: Unify rwlock assembly implementation x86, asm: Fix binutils 2.16 issue with __USER32_CS x86, asm: Cleanup thunk_64.S x86, asm: Flip RESTORE_ARGS arguments logic x86, asm: Flip SAVE_ARGS arguments logic x86, asm: Thin down SAVE/RESTORE_* asm macros
2011-07-21x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library functionRobert Richter
copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32 and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issueJan Beulich
With the write lock path simply subtracting RW_LOCK_BIAS there is, on large systems, the theoretical possibility of overflowing the 32-bit value that was used so far (namely if 128 or more CPUs manage to do the subtraction, but don't get to do the inverse addition in the failure path quickly enough). A first measure is to modify RW_LOCK_BIAS itself - with the new value chosen, it is good for up to 2048 CPUs each allowed to nest over 2048 times on the read path without causing an issue. Quite possibly it would even be sufficient to adjust the bias a little further, assuming that allowing for significantly less nesting would suffice. However, as the original value chosen allowed for even more nesting levels, to support more than 2048 CPUs (possible currently only for 64-bit kernels) the lock itself gets widened to 64 bits. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258E0D020000780004E3F0@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21x86: Unify rwsem assembly implementationJan Beulich
Rather than having two functionally identical implementations for 32- and 64-bit configurations, use the previously extended assembly abstractions to fold the rwsem two implementations into a shared one. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258DF3020000780004E3ED@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21x86: Unify rwlock assembly implementationJan Beulich
Rather than having two functionally identical implementations for 32- and 64-bit configurations, extend the existing assembly abstractions enough to fold the two rwlock implementations into a shared one. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258DD7020000780004E3EA@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-13x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relativeAndy Lutomirski
This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can apply alternatives to unrelocated code. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-03x86, asm: Cleanup thunk_64.SBorislav Petkov
Drop thunk_ra macro in favor of an additional argument to the thunk macro since their bodies are almost identical. Do a whitespace scrubbing and use CFI-aware macros for full annotation. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306873314-32523-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-20Merge branches 'x86-apic-for-linus', 'x86-asm-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, apic: Print verbose error interrupt reason on apic=debug * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Demacro CONFIG_PARAVIRT cpu accessors * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix mrst sparse complaints x86: Fix spelling error in the memcpy() source code comment x86, mpparse: Remove unnecessary variable
2011-05-18x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limitJiri Olsa
As reported in BZ #30352: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352 there's a kernel bug related to reading the last allowed page on x86_64. The _copy_to_user() and _copy_from_user() functions use the following check for address limit: if (buf + size >= limit) fail(); while it should be more permissive: if (buf + size > limit) fail(); That's because the size represents the number of bytes being read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address. So the copy function will actually never touch the limit address even if "buf + size == limit". Following program fails to use the last page as buffer due to the wrong limit check: #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <assert.h> #define PAGE_SIZE (4096) #define LAST_PAGE ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000)) int main() { int fds[2], err; void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0); assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE); err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds); assert(err == 0); err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0); perror("send"); assert(err == PAGE_SIZE); err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL); perror("recv"); assert(err == PAGE_SIZE); return 0; } The other place checking the addr limit is the access_ok() function, which is working properly. There's just a misleading comment for the __range_not_ok() macro - which this patch fixes as well. The last page of the user-space address range is a guard page and Brian Gerst observed that the guard page itself due to an erratum on K8 cpus (#121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical Boundary Causes Processor Hang). However, the test code is using the last valid page before the guard page. The bug is that the last byte before the guard page can't be read because of the off-by-one error. The guard page is left in place. This bug would normally not show up because the last page is part of the process stack and never accessed via syscalls. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305210630-7136-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-17x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSBFenghua Yu
Support memset() with enhanced rep stosb. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memset_c_e function using enhanced rep stosb overrides the fast string alternative memset_c and the original function. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-17x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSBFenghua Yu
Support memmove() by enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memmove() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function. The patch doesn't change the backward memmove case to use enhanced rep movsb. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-9-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-17x86, mem: memcpy_64.S: Optimize memcpy by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSBFenghua Yu
Support memcpy() with enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced rep movsb, the alternative memcpy() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function and the fast string function. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-17x86, mem: copy_user_64.S: Support copy_to/from_user by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSBFenghua Yu
Support copy_to_user/copy_from_user() by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative copy_user_enhanced_fast_string function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function and the fast string function. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-7-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-17x86, mem: clear_page_64.S: Support clear_page() with enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSBFenghua Yu
Intel processors are adding enhancements to REP MOVSB/STOSB and the use of REP MOVSB/STOSB for optimal memcpy/memset or similar functions is recommended. Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/ STOSB). Support clear_page() with rep stosb for processor supporting enhanced REP MOVSB /STOSB. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative clear_page_c_e function using enhanced REP STOSB overrides the original function and the fast string function. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-07Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc6' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
Merge reason: move to a (much) newer upstream base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-01x86: Fix spelling error in the memcpy() source code commentBart Van Assche
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201105011409.21629.bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-28percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_doubleChristoph Lameter
Omit the segment prefix in the UP case. GS is not used then and we will generate segfaults if cmpxchg16b is used otherwise. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-18Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available x86: Clean up csum-copy_64.S a bit x86: Fix common misspellings x86: Fix misspelling and align params x86: Use PentiumPro-optimized partial_csum() on VIA C7
2011-03-18x86: Clean up csum-copy_64.S a bitIngo Molnar
The many stray whitespaces and other uncleanlinesses made this code almost unreadable to me - so fix those. No changes to the code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-18x86: Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: trivial@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-16Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section")
2011-03-16Merge branch 'x86-mem-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug
2011-03-02x86: Fix a bogus unwind annotation in lib/semaphore_32.SJan Beulich
'simple' would have required specifying current frame address and return address location manually, but that's obviously not the case (and not necessary) here. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4D6D1082020000780003454C@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-28x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.SJan Beulich
Some of the items removed were apparently never used, others simply didn't get removed with their last user. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4D6BD3A002000078000341F1@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-28x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more placesJan Beulich
Cleaning up and shortening code... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4D6BD35002000078000341DA@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-28x86-64: Add CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.SJan Beulich
These weren't part of the initial commit of this code. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4D6BCDFF02000078000341B0@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-28percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() supportChristoph Lameter
Support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() using the cmpxchg16b and cmpxchg8b instructions. -tj: s/percpu_cmpxchg16b/percpu_cmpxchg16b_double/ for consistency and other cosmetic changes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-01-26x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bugFenghua Yu
memmove_64.c only implements memmove() function which is completely written in inline assembly code. Therefore it doesn't make sense to keep the assembly code in .c file. Currently memmove() doesn't store return value to rax. This may cause issue if caller uses the return value. The patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1295314755-6625-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-04x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculationChristoph Lameter
The code will use a segment prefix instead of doing the lookup and calculation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-09-25x86, mem: Optimize memmove for small size and unaligned casesMa Ling
movs instruction will combine data to accelerate moving data, however we need to concern two cases about it. 1. movs instruction need long lantency to startup, so here we use general mov instruction to copy data. 2. movs instruction is not good for unaligned case, even if src offset is 0x10, dest offset is 0x0, we avoid and handle the case by general mov instruction. Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1284664360-6138-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-23x86, mem: Optimize memcpy by avoiding memory false dependeceMa Ling
All read operations after allocation stage can run speculatively, all write operation will run in program order, and if addresses are different read may run before older write operation, otherwise wait until write commit. However CPU don't check each address bit, so read could fail to recognize different address even they are in different page.For example if rsi is 0xf004, rdi is 0xe008, in following operation there will generate big performance latency. 1. movq (%rsi), %rax 2. movq %rax, (%rdi) 3. movq 8(%rsi), %rax 4. movq %rax, 8(%rdi) If %rsi and rdi were in really the same meory page, there are TRUE read-after-write dependence because instruction 2 write 0x008 and instruction 3 read 0x00c, the two address are overlap partially. Actually there are in different page and no any issues, but without checking each address bit CPU could think they are in the same page, and instruction 3 have to wait for instruction 2 to write data into cache from write buffer, then load data from cache, the cost time read spent is equal to mfence instruction. We may avoid it by tuning operation sequence as follow. 1. movq 8(%rsi), %rax 2. movq %rax, 8(%rdi) 3. movq (%rsi), %rax 4. movq %rax, (%rdi) Instruction 3 read 0x004, instruction 2 write address 0x010, no any dependence. At last on Core2 we gain 1.83x speedup compared with original instruction sequence. In this patch we first handle small size(less 20bytes), then jump to different copy mode. Based on our micro-benchmark small bytes from 1 to 127 bytes, we got up to 2X improvement, and up to 1.5X improvement for 1024 bytes on Corei7. (We use our micro-benchmark, and will do further test according to your requirment) Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1277753065-18610-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-23x86, mem: Don't implement forward memmove() as memcpy()Ma, Ling
memmove() allow source and destination address to be overlap, but there is no such limitation for memcpy(). Therefore, explicitly implement memmove() in both the forwards and backward directions, to give us the ability to optimize memcpy(). Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <C10D3FB0CD45994C8A51FEC1227CE22F0E483AD86A@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-13Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol() x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
2010-08-12x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.SLuca Barbieri
Use a lowercase name for the end macro, which somehow fixes a binutils 2.16 problem. Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com> LKML-Reference: <tip-30246557a06bb20618bed906a06d1e1e0faa8bb4@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-12x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleanerLuca Barbieri
The old code didn't work on binutils 2.12 because setting a symbol to a register apparently requires a fairly recent version. This commit refactors the code to use the C preprocessor instead, and in the process makes the whole code a bit easier to understand. The object code produced is unchanged as expected. This fixes kernel bugzilla 16506. Reported-by: Dieter Stussy <kd6lvw+software@kd6lvw.ampr.org> Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35 LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'x86-alternatives-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-alternatives-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, alternatives: BUG on encountering an invalid CPU feature number x86, alternatives: Fix one more open-coded 8-bit alternative number x86, alternatives: Use 16-bit numbers for cpufeature index
2010-07-29x86, asm: Merge cmpxchg_486_u64() and cmpxchg8b_emu()H. Peter Anvin
We have two functions for doing exactly the same thing -- emulating cmpxchg8b on 486 and older hardware -- with different calling conventions, and yet doing the same thing. Drop the C version and use the assembly version, via alternatives, for both the local and non-local versions of cmpxchg8b. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikAmaDPji-TVDarmG1yD=fwbffcsmEU=YEuP+8r@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-28x86, asm: Move cmpxchg emulation code to arch/x86/libH. Peter Anvin
Move cmpxchg emulation code from arch/x86/kernel/cpu (which is otherwise CPU identification) to arch/x86/lib, where other emulation code lives already. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTikAmaDPji-TVDarmG1yD=fwbffcsmEU=YEuP+8r@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-13x86, alternatives: Fix one more open-coded 8-bit alternative numberH. Peter Anvin
Fix a missing case of an 8-bit alternative number, buried inside an assembly macro. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinhai@kernel.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4C3BDDA3.2060900@kernel.org>
2010-07-07x86, alternatives: Use 16-bit numbers for cpufeature indexH. Peter Anvin
We already have cpufeature indicies above 255, so use a 16-bit number for the alternatives index. This consumes a padding field and so doesn't add any size, but it means that abusing the padding field to create assembly errors on overflow no longer works. We can retain the test simply by redirecting it to the .discard section, however. [ v3: updated to include open-coded locations ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <tip-f88731e3068f9d1392ba71cc9f50f035d26a0d4f@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build x86, atomic64: In selftest, distinguish x86-64 from 586+ x86-32: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero return value convention lib: Fix atomic64_inc_not_zero test lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention x86-32: Fix atomic64_add_unless return value convention lib: Fix atomic64_add_unless test x86: Implement atomic[64]_dec_if_positive() lib: Only test atomic64_dec_if_positive on archs having it x86-32: Rewrite 32-bit atomic64 functions in assembly lib: Add self-test for atomic64_t x86-32: Allow UP/SMP lock replacement in cmpxchg64 x86: Add support for lock prefix in alternatives
2010-05-07Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-04Fix the x86_64 implementation of call_rwsem_wait()David Howells
The x86_64 call_rwsem_wait() treats the active state counter part of the R/W semaphore state as being 16-bit when it's actually 32-bit (it's half of the 64-bit state). It should do "decl %edx" not "decw %dx". Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-29Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomicH. Peter Anvin
Merge reason: Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives pointers Resolved Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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