x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

Add support for the hardware version of the Hamming weight function,
popcnt, present in CPUs which advertize it under CPUID, Function
0x0000_0001_ECX[23]. On CPUs which don't support it, we fallback to the
default lib/hweight.c sw versions.

A synthetic benchmark comparing popcnt with __sw_hweight64 showed almost
a 3x speedup on a F10h machine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index b09ec55650b3..67dae51e7fd0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@
 #define LOCK_PREFIX ""
 #endif
 
-/* This must be included *after* the definition of LOCK_PREFIX */
-#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
-
 struct alt_instr {
         u8 *instr;              /* original instruction */
         u8 *replacement;
@@ -96,6 +93,12 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
       ".previous"
 
 /*
+ * This must be included *after* the definition of ALTERNATIVE due to
+ * <asm/arch_hweight.h>
+ */
+#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+
+/*
  * Alternative instructions for different CPU types or capabilities.
  *
  * This allows to use optimized instructions even on generic binary