word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic

This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions

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);
 }
 
 /*