Since GCC commit 271500 (svn), also known as the following commit on the
git mirror:
commit 61edec870f9fdfb5df3fa4e40f28cbaede28a5b1
Author: amodra <amodra@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
Date: Wed May 22 04:34:26 2019 +0000
[RS6000] Don't pass -many to the assembler
glibc builds are failing when an assembly implementation does not
declare the correct '.machine' directive, or when no such directive is
declared at all. For example, when a POWER6 instruction is used, but
'.machine power6' is not declared, the assembler will fail with an error
similar to the following:
../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strcmp.S: Assembler messages:
24 ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strcmp.S:55: Error: unrecognized opcode: `cmpb'
This patch adds '.machine powerN' directives where none existed, as well
as it updates '.machine power7' directives on POWER8 files, because the
minimum binutils version required to build glibc (binutils 2.25) now
provides this machine version. It also adds '-many' to the assembler
command used to build tst-set_ppr.c.
Tested for powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpc64le, as well as with
build-many-glibcs.py for powerpc targets.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
Clean up the IFUNC implementations for powerpc in order to remove
unneeded macro definitions.
Tested on ppc64le with and without --disable-multi-arch flag.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcasecmp_l-power7.S: Define
the implementation-specific function name and remove unneeded
macros definition.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-power7.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-power8.S Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-power9.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcmp-ppc64.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncmp-power4.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncmp-power7.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncmp-power8.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncmp-power9.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strncmp-ppc64.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/strncmp.S: Set a default function
name if not defined and pass as parameter to macros accordingly.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strncmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strncmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power9/strcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power9/strncmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/strcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/strncmp.S: Likewise.
For strings >16B and <32B existing algorithm takes more time than default
implementation when strings are placed closed to end of page. This is due
to byte by byte access for handling page cross. This is improved by
following >32B code path where the address is adjusted to aligned memory
before doing load doubleword operation instead of loading bytes.
Tested on powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
This patch adds an optimized POWER8 strcmp using unaligned accesses.
The algorithm first check the initial 16 bytes, then align the first
function source and uses unaligned loads on second argument only.
Aditional checks for page boundaries are done for unaligned cases
