Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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+/*
+ * Optimized version of the strlen_user() function
+ *
+ * Inputs:
+ *      in0     address of buffer
+ *
+ * Outputs:
+ *      ret0    0 in case of fault, strlen(buffer)+1 otherwise
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001 Hewlett-Packard Co
+ *      David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
+ *      Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
+ *
+ * 01/19/99 S.Eranian heavily enhanced version (see details below)
+ * 09/24/99 S.Eranian added speculation recovery code
+ */
+
+#include <asm/asmmacro.h>
+
+//
+// int strlen_user(char *)
+// ------------------------
+// Returns:
+//      - length of string + 1
+//      - 0 in case an exception is raised
+//
+// This is an enhanced version of the basic strlen_user. it includes a
+// combination of compute zero index (czx), parallel comparisons, speculative
+// loads and loop unroll using rotating registers.
+//
+// General Ideas about the algorithm:
+//        The goal is to look at the string in chunks of 8 bytes.
+//        so we need to do a few extra checks at the beginning because the
+//        string may not be 8-byte aligned. In this case we load the 8byte
+//        quantity which includes the start of the string and mask the unused
+//        bytes with 0xff to avoid confusing czx.
+//        We use speculative loads and software pipelining to hide memory
+//        latency and do read ahead safely. This way we defer any exception.
+//
+//        Because we don't want the kernel to be relying on particular
+//        settings of the DCR register, we provide recovery code in case
+//        speculation fails. The recovery code is going to "redo" the work using
+//        only normal loads. If we still get a fault then we return an
+//        error (ret0=0). Otherwise we return the strlen+1 as usual.
+//        The fact that speculation may fail can be caused, for instance, by
+//        the DCR.dm bit being set. In this case TLB misses are deferred, i.e.,
+//        a NaT bit will be set if the translation is not present. The normal
+//        load, on the other hand, will cause the translation to be inserted
+//        if the mapping exists.
+//
+//        It should be noted that we execute recovery code only when we need
+//        to use the data that has been speculatively loaded: we don't execute
+//        recovery code on pure read ahead data.
+//
+// Remarks:
+//      - the cmp r0,r0 is used as a fast way to initialize a predicate
+//        register to 1. This is required to make sure that we get the parallel
+//        compare correct.
+//
+//      - we don't use the epilogue counter to exit the loop but we need to set
+//        it to zero beforehand.
+//
+//      - after the loop we must test for Nat values because neither the
+//        czx nor cmp instruction raise a NaT consumption fault. We must be
+//        careful not to look too far for a Nat for which we don't care.
+//        For instance we don't need to look at a NaT in val2 if the zero byte
+//        was in val1.
+//
+//      - Clearly performance tuning is required.
+//
+
+#define saved_pfs       r11
+#define tmp             r10
+#define base            r16
+#define orig            r17
+#define saved_pr        r18
+#define src             r19
+#define mask            r20
+#define val             r21
+#define val1            r22
+#define val2            r23
+
+GLOBAL_ENTRY(__strlen_user)
+        .prologue
+        .save ar.pfs, saved_pfs
+        alloc saved_pfs=ar.pfs,11,0,0,8
+
+        .rotr v[2], w[2]        // declares our 4 aliases
+
+        extr.u tmp=in0,0,3      // tmp=least significant 3 bits
+        mov orig=in0            // keep trackof initial byte address
+        dep src=0,in0,0,3       // src=8byte-aligned in0 address
+        .save pr, saved_pr
+        mov saved_pr=pr         // preserve predicates (rotation)
+        ;;
+
+        .body
+
+        ld8.s v[1]=[src],8      // load the initial 8bytes (must speculate)
+        shl tmp=tmp,3           // multiply by 8bits/byte
+        mov mask=-1             // our mask
+        ;;
+        ld8.s w[1]=[src],8      // load next 8 bytes in 2nd pipeline
+        cmp.eq p6,p0=r0,r0      // sets p6 (required because of // cmp.and)
+        sub tmp=64,tmp          // how many bits to shift our mask on the right
+        ;;
+        shr.u   mask=mask,tmp   // zero enough bits to hold v[1] valuable part
+        mov ar.ec=r0            // clear epilogue counter (saved in ar.pfs)
+        ;;
+        add base=-16,src        // keep track of aligned base
+        chk.s v[1], .recover    // if already NaT, then directly skip to recover
+        or v[1]=v[1],mask       // now we have a safe initial byte pattern
+        ;;
+1:
+        ld8.s v[0]=[src],8      // speculatively load next
+        czx1.r val1=v[1]        // search 0 byte from right
+        czx1.r val2=w[1]        // search 0 byte from right following 8bytes
+        ;;
+        ld8.s w[0]=[src],8      // speculatively load next to next
+        cmp.eq.and p6,p0=8,val1 // p6 = p6 and val1==8
+        cmp.eq.and p6,p0=8,val2 // p6 = p6 and mask==8
+(p6)    br.wtop.dptk.few 1b     // loop until p6 == 0
+        ;;
+        //
+        // We must return try the recovery code iff
+        // val1_is_nat || (val1==8 && val2_is_nat)
+        //
+        // XXX Fixme
+        //      - there must be a better way of doing the test
+        //
+        cmp.eq  p8,p9=8,val1    // p6 = val1 had zero (disambiguate)
+        tnat.nz p6,p7=val1      // test NaT on val1
+(p6)    br.cond.spnt .recover   // jump to recovery if val1 is NaT
+        ;;
+        //
+        // if we come here p7 is true, i.e., initialized for // cmp
+        //
+        cmp.eq.and  p7,p0=8,val1// val1==8?
+        tnat.nz.and p7,p0=val2  // test NaT if val2
+(p7)    br.cond.spnt .recover   // jump to recovery if val2 is NaT
+        ;;
+(p8)    mov val1=val2           // val2 contains the value
+(p8)    adds src=-16,src        // correct position when 3 ahead
+(p9)    adds src=-24,src        // correct position when 4 ahead
+        ;;
+        sub ret0=src,orig       // distance from origin
+        sub tmp=7,val1          // 7=8-1 because this strlen returns strlen+1
+        mov pr=saved_pr,0xffffffffffff0000
+        ;;
+        sub ret0=ret0,tmp       // length=now - back -1
+        mov ar.pfs=saved_pfs    // because of ar.ec, restore no matter what
+        br.ret.sptk.many rp     // end of normal execution
+
+        //
+        // Outlined recovery code when speculation failed
+        //
+        // This time we don't use speculation and rely on the normal exception
+        // mechanism. that's why the loop is not as good as the previous one
+        // because read ahead is not possible
+        //
+        // XXX Fixme
+        //      - today we restart from the beginning of the string instead
+        //        of trying to continue where we left off.
+        //
+.recover:
+        EX(.Lexit1, ld8 val=[base],8)   // load the initial bytes
+        ;;
+        or val=val,mask                 // remask first bytes
+        cmp.eq p0,p6=r0,r0              // nullify first ld8 in loop
+        ;;
+        //
+        // ar.ec is still zero here
+        //
+2:
+        EX(.Lexit1, (p6) ld8 val=[base],8)
+        ;;
+        czx1.r val1=val         // search 0 byte from right
+        ;;
+        cmp.eq p6,p0=8,val1     // val1==8 ?
+(p6)    br.wtop.dptk.few 2b     // loop until p6 == 0
+        ;;
+        sub ret0=base,orig      // distance from base
+        sub tmp=7,val1          // 7=8-1 because this strlen returns strlen+1
+        mov pr=saved_pr,0xffffffffffff0000
+        ;;
+        sub ret0=ret0,tmp       // length=now - back -1
+        mov ar.pfs=saved_pfs    // because of ar.ec, restore no matter what
+        br.ret.sptk.many rp     // end of successful recovery code
+
+        //
+        // We failed even on the normal load (called from exception handler)
+        //
+.Lexit1:
+        mov ret0=0
+        mov pr=saved_pr,0xffffffffffff0000
+        mov ar.pfs=saved_pfs    // because of ar.ec, restore no matter what
+        br.ret.sptk.many rp
+END(__strlen_user)