From d61931d89be506372d01a90d1755f6d0a9fafe2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:34:46 +0100 Subject: 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 LKML-Reference: <20100318112015.GC11152@aftab> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 0eacb1ffb421..89d8c54cdd37 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ config X86_32_LAZY_GS def_bool y depends on X86_32 && !CC_STACKPROTECTOR +config ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS + string + default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 + default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 + config KTIME_SCALAR def_bool X86_32 source "init/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.2.2