Besides the option being gcc specific, this approach is still fragile
and not future proof since we do not know if this will be the only
optimization option gcc will add that transforms loops to memset
(or any libcall).
This patch adds a new header, dl-symbol-redir-ifunc.h, that can b
used to redirect the compiler generated libcalls to port the generic
memset implementation if required.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Rather than buffering 16 MiB of entropy in userspace (by way of
chacha20), simply call getrandom() every time.
This approach is doubtlessly slower, for now, but trying to prematurely
optimize arc4random appears to be leading toward all sorts of nasty
properties and gotchas. Instead, this patch takes a much more
conservative approach. The interface is added as a basic loop wrapper
around getrandom(), and then later, the kernel and libc together can
work together on optimizing that.
This prevents numerous issues in which userspace is unaware of when it
really must throw away its buffer, since we avoid buffering all
together. Future improvements may include userspace learning more from
the kernel about when to do that, which might make these sorts of
chacha20-based optimizations more possible. The current heuristic of 16
MiB is meaningless garbage that doesn't correspond to anything the
kernel might know about. So for now, let's just do something
conservative that we know is correct and won't lead to cryptographic
issues for users of this function.
This patch might be considered along the lines of, "optimization is the
root of all evil," in that the much more complex implementation it
replaces moves too fast without considering security implications,
whereas the incremental approach done here is a much safer way of going
about things. Once this lands, we can take our time in optimizing this
properly using new interplay between the kernel and userspace.
getrandom(0) is used, since that's the one that ensures the bytes
returned are cryptographically secure. But on systems without it, we
fallback to using /dev/urandom. This is unfortunate because it means
opening a file descriptor, but there's not much of a choice. Secondly,
as part of the fallback, in order to get more or less the same
properties of getrandom(0), we poll on /dev/random, and if the poll
succeeds at least once, then we assume the RNG is initialized. This is a
rough approximation, as the ancient "non-blocking pool" initialized
after the "blocking pool", not before, and it may not port back to all
ancient kernels, though it does to all kernels supported by glibc
(≥3.2), so generally it's the best approximation we can do.
The motivation for including arc4random, in the first place, is to have
source-level compatibility with existing code. That means this patch
doesn't attempt to litigate the interface itself. It does, however,
choose a conservative approach for implementing it.
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Add a proper bounds check to __libc_ifunc_impl_list. This makes MAX_IFUNC
redundant and fixes several targets that will write outside the array.
To avoid unnecessary large diffs, pass the maximum in the argument 'i' to
IFUNC_IMPL_ADD - 'max' can be used in new ifunc definitions and existing
ones can be updated if desired.
Passes buildmanyglibc.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
__strncpy_power9 initializes VR 18 with zeroes to be used throughout the
code, including when zero-padding the destination string. However, the
v18 reference was mistakenly being used for stxv and stxvl, which take a
VSX vector as operand. The code ended up using the uninitialized VSR 18
register by mistake.
Both occurrences have been changed to use the proper VSX number for VR 18
(i.e. VSR 50).
Tested on powerpc, powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
Signed-off-by: Kewen Lin <linkw@gcc.gnu.org>
Both float, double, and _Float128 are assumed to be supported
(float and double already only uses builtins). Only long double
is parametrized due GCC bug 29253 which prevents its usage on
powerpc.
It allows to remove i686, ia64, x86_64, powerpc, and sparc arch
specific implementation.
On ia64 it also fixes the sNAN handling:
math/test-float64x-fabs
math/test-ldouble-fabs
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, powerpc-linux-gnu,
powerpc64-linux-gnu, sparc64-linux-gnu, and ia64-linux-gnu.
PI_STATIC_AND_HIDDEN indicates whether accesses to internal linkage
variables and hidden visibility variables in a shared object (ld.so)
need dynamic relocations (usually R_*_RELATIVE). PI (position
independent) in the macro name is a misnomer: a code sequence using GOT
is typically position-independent as well, but using dynamic relocations
does not meet the requirement.
Not defining PI_STATIC_AND_HIDDEN is legacy and we expect that all new
ports will define PI_STATIC_AND_HIDDEN. Current ports defining
PI_STATIC_AND_HIDDEN are more than the opposite. Change the configure
default.
No functional change.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
libgcc ifunc resolvers that access hwcap via a field in the tcb can't
be called until the thread pointer is set up. Other ifunc resolvers
might need access to at_platform. This patch sets up a fake thread
pointer early to a copy of tcbhead_t. hwcapinfo.c already had local
variables for hwcap and at_platform, replace them with an entire
tcbhead_t. It's not that large and this way we easily ensure hwcap
and at_platform are at the same relative offsets as they are in the
real thread block.
The patch also conditionally disables part of tst-tlsifunc-static,
"bar address read from IFUNC resolver is incorrect". We can't get a
proper address for a thread variable before glibc initialises tls.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
The PowerPC64 linker edits medium model toc-indirect code to toc-pointer
relative:
addis r9,r2,tc_entry_for_var@toc@ha
ld r9,tc_entry_for_var@toc@l(r9)
becomes
addis r9,r2,(var-.TOC.)@ha
addi r9,r9,(var-.TOC.)@l
when "var" is known to be local to the binary. This isn't done for
small-model toc-indirect code, because "var" is almost guaranteed to
be too far away from .TOC. for a 16-bit signed offset. And, because
the analysis of which .toc entry can be removed becomes much more
complicated in objects that mix code models, they aren't removed if
any small-model toc sequence appears in an object file.
Unfortunately, glibc's build of ld.so smashes the needed objects
together in a ld -r linking stage. This means the GOT/TOC is left
with a whole lot of relative relocations which is untidy, but in
itself is not a serious problem. However, static-pie on powerpc64
bombs due to a segfault caused by one of the small-model accesses
before _dl_relocate_static_pie. (The very first one in rcrt1.o
passing start_addresses in r8 to __libc_start_main.)
So this patch makes all the toc/got accesses in assembly medium code
model, and a couple of functions hidden. By itself this is not
enough to give us working static-pie, but it is useful in isolation to
enable better linker optimisation.
There's a serious problem in libgcc too. libgcc ifuncs access the
AT_HWCAP words stored in the tcb with an offset from the thread
pointer (r13), but r13 isn't set at the time _dl_relocate_static_pie.
A followup patch will fix that.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
configure scripts need to be runnable with a POSIX-compliant /bin/sh.
On many (but not all!) systems, /bin/sh is provided by Bash, so errors
like this aren't spotted. Notably Debian defaults to /bin/sh provided
by dash which doesn't tolerate such bashisms as '=='.
This retains compatibility with bash.
Fixes configure warnings/errors like:
```
checking if compiler warns about alias for function with incompatible types... yes
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.34-r10/work/glibc-2.34/configure: 4209: test: xyes: unexpected operator
```
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Prelinked binaries and libraries still work, the dynamic tags
DT_GNU_PRELINKED, DT_GNU_LIBLIST, DT_GNU_CONFLICT just ignored
(meaning the process is reallocated as default).
The loader environment variable TRACE_PRELINKING is also removed,
since it used solely on prelink.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
This is required so that the checks still work if $(early-cflags)
selects a different ISA level.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Trapping SIGSEGV within the process is error-prone, adds security
issues, and modern analysis design tends to happen out of the
process (either by attaching a debugger or by post-mortem analysis).
The libSegfault also has some design problems, it uses non
async-signal-safe function (backtrace) on signal handler.
There are multiple alternatives if users do want to use similar
functionality, such as sigsegv gnulib module or libsegfault.
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
It consolidates the code required to call la_pltexit audit
callback.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Current binutils defines __executable_start as the lowest text
address, so using the entry point address as a fallback is no
longer necessary. As a result, overriding <entry.h> is only
necessary if the entry point is not called _start.
The previous approach to define __ASSEMBLY__ to suppress the
declaration breaks if headers included by <entry.h> are not
compatible with __ASSEMBLY__. This happens with rseq integration
because it is necessary to include kernel headers in more places.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
The @notoc usage only yields an advantage on ISA 3.1+ machine (power10)
and for ld.bfd also when it sees pcrel relocations used on the code
(generated if compiler targets ISA 3.1+). On bfd case ISA 3.1+
instruction on stubs are used iff linker also sees the new pc-relative
relocations (for instance R_PPC64_D34), otherwise it generates default
stubs (ppc64_elf_check_relocs:4700).
This patch also help on linkers that do not implement this optimization,
since building for older ISA (such as 3.0 / power9) will also trigger
power10 stubs generation in the assembly code uses the NOTOC imacro.
Checked on powerpc64le-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
No bug.
This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c
As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.
__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.
All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
The powerpc optimization to provide a fast stacktrace requires some
ad-hoc code to handle Linux signal frames and the change is fragile
once the kernel decides to slight change its execution sequence [1].
The generic implementation work as-is and it should be future proof
since the kernel provides the expected CFI directives in vDSO shared
page.
Checked on powerpc-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
powerpc64-linux-gnu.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122027.html
The 4af6982e4c fix does not fully handle RTLD_BOOTSTRAP usage on
rtld.c due two issues:
1. RTLD_BOOTSTRAP is also used on dl-machine.h on various
architectures and it changes the semantics of various machine
relocation functions.
2. The elf_get_dynamic_info() change was done sideways, previously
to 490e6c62aa get-dynamic-info.h was included by the first
dynamic-link.h include *without* RTLD_BOOTSTRAP being defined.
It means that the code within elf_get_dynamic_info() that uses
RTLD_BOOTSTRAP is in fact unused.
To fix 1. this patch now includes dynamic-link.h only once with
RTLD_BOOTSTRAP defined. The ELF_DYNAMIC_RELOCATE call will now have
the relocation fnctions with the expected semantics for the loader.
And to fix 2. part of 4af6982e4c is reverted (the check argument
elf_get_dynamic_info() is not required) and the RTLD_BOOTSTRAP
pieces are removed.
To reorganize the includes the static TLS definition is moved to
its own header to avoid a circular dependency (it is defined on
dynamic-link.h and dl-machine.h requires it at same time other
dynamic-link.h definition requires dl-machine.h defitions).
Also ELF_MACHINE_NO_REL, ELF_MACHINE_NO_RELA, and ELF_MACHINE_PLT_REL
are moved to its own header. Only ancient ABIs need special values
(arm, i386, and mips), so a generic one is used as default.
The powerpc Elf64_FuncDesc is also moved to its own header, since
csu code required its definition (which would require either include
elf/ folder or add a full path with elf/).
Checked on x86_64, i686, aarch64, armhf, powerpc64, powerpc32,
and powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
dynamic-link.h is included more than once in some elf/ files (rtld.c,
dl-conflict.c, dl-reloc.c, dl-reloc-static-pie.c) and uses GCC nested
functions. This harms readability and the nested functions usage
is the biggest obstacle prevents Clang build (Clang doesn't support GCC
nested functions).
The key idea for unnesting is to add extra parameters (struct link_map
*and struct r_scope_elm *[]) to RESOLVE_MAP,
ELF_MACHINE_BEFORE_RTLD_RELOC, ELF_DYNAMIC_RELOCATE, elf_machine_rel[a],
elf_machine_lazy_rel, and elf_machine_runtime_setup. (This is inspired
by Stan Shebs' ppc64/x86-64 implementation in the
google/grte/v5-2.27/master which uses mixed extra parameters and static
variables.)
Future simplification:
* If mips elf_machine_runtime_setup no longer needs RESOLVE_GOTSYM,
elf_machine_runtime_setup can drop the `scope` parameter.
* If TLSDESC no longer need to be in elf_machine_lazy_rel,
elf_machine_lazy_rel can drop the `scope` parameter.
Tested on aarch64, i386, x86-64, powerpc64le, powerpc64, powerpc32,
sparc64, sparcv9, s390x, s390, hppa, ia64, armhf, alpha, and mips64.
In addition, tested build-many-glibcs.py with {arc,csky,microblaze,nios2}-linux-gnu
and riscv64-linux-gnu-rv64imafdc-lp64d.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This patch adds the narrowing fused multiply-add functions from TS
18661-1 / TS 18661-3 / C2X to glibc's libm: ffma, ffmal, dfmal,
f32fmaf64, f32fmaf32x, f32xfmaf64 for all configurations; f32fmaf64x,
f32fmaf128, f64fmaf64x, f64fmaf128, f32xfmaf64x, f32xfmaf128,
f64xfmaf128 for configurations with _Float64x and _Float128;
__f32fmaieee128 and __f64fmaieee128 aliases in the powerpc64le case
(for calls to ffmal and dfmal when long double is IEEE binary128).
Corresponding tgmath.h macro support is also added.
The changes are mostly similar to those for the other narrowing
functions previously added, especially that for sqrt, so the
description of those generally applies to this patch as well. As with
sqrt, I reused the same test inputs in auto-libm-test-in as for
non-narrowing fma rather than adding extra or separate inputs for
narrowing fma. The tests in libm-test-narrow-fma.inc also follow
those for non-narrowing fma.
The non-narrowing fma has a known bug (bug 6801) that it does not set
errno on errors (overflow, underflow, Inf * 0, Inf - Inf). Rather
than fixing this or having narrowing fma check for errors when
non-narrowing does not (complicating the cases when narrowing fma can
otherwise be an alias for a non-narrowing function), this patch does
not attempt to check for errors from narrowing fma and set errno; the
CHECK_NARROW_FMA macro is still present, but as a placeholder that
does nothing, and this missing errno setting is considered to be
covered by the existing bug rather than needing a separate open bug.
missing-errno annotations are duly added to many of the
auto-libm-test-in test inputs for fma.
This completes adding all the new functions from TS 18661-1 to glibc,
so will be followed by corresponding stdc-predef.h changes to define
__STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__, as the support
for TS 18661-1 will be at a similar level to that for C standard
floating-point facilities up to C11 (pragmas not implemented, but
library functions done). (There are still further changes to be done
to implement changes to the types of fromfp functions from N2548.)
Tested as followed: natively with the full glibc testsuite for x86_64
(GCC 11, 7, 6) and x86 (GCC 11); with build-many-glibcs.py with GCC
11, 7 and 6; cross testing of math/ tests for powerpc64le, powerpc32
hard float, mips64 (all three ABIs, both hard and soft float). The
different GCC versions are to cover the different cases in tgmath.h
and tgmath.h tests properly (GCC 6 has _Float* only as typedefs in
glibc headers, GCC 7 has proper _Float* support, GCC 8 adds
__builtin_tgmath).
Recent binutils commit b25f942e18d6ecd7ec3e2d2e9930eb4f996c258a
changes the behavior of `.machine` directives to override, rather
than augment, the base CPU. This can result in _reduced_ functionality
when, for example, compiling for default machine "power8", but explicitly
asking for ".machine power5", which loses Altivec instructions.
In tst-ucontext-ppc64-vscr.c, while the instructions provoking the new
error messages are bracketed by ".machine power5", which is ostensibly
Power ISA 2.03 (POWER5), the POWER5 processor did not support the
VSX subset, so these instructions are not recognized as "power5".
Error: unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb'
Error: unrecognized opcode: `vpkuwus'
Error: unrecognized opcode: `mfvscr'
Error: unrecognized opcode: `stvx'
Manually adding the VSX subset via ".machine altivec" is sufficient.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
This patch adds the narrowing square root functions from TS 18661-1 /
TS 18661-3 / C2X to glibc's libm: fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl, f32sqrtf64,
f32sqrtf32x, f32xsqrtf64 for all configurations; f32sqrtf64x,
f32sqrtf128, f64sqrtf64x, f64sqrtf128, f32xsqrtf64x, f32xsqrtf128,
f64xsqrtf128 for configurations with _Float64x and _Float128;
__f32sqrtieee128 and __f64sqrtieee128 aliases in the powerpc64le case
(for calls to fsqrtl and dsqrtl when long double is IEEE binary128).
Corresponding tgmath.h macro support is also added.
The changes are mostly similar to those for the other narrowing
functions previously added, so the description of those generally
applies to this patch as well. However, the not-actually-narrowing
cases (where the two types involved in the function have the same
floating-point format) are aliased to sqrt, sqrtl or sqrtf128 rather
than needing a separately built not-actually-narrowing function such
as was needed for add / sub / mul / div. Thus, there is no
__nldbl_dsqrtl name for ldbl-opt because no such name was needed
(whereas the other functions needed such a name since the only other
name for that entry point was e.g. f32xaddf64, not reserved by TS
18661-1); the headers are made to arrange for sqrt to be called in
that case instead.
The DIAG_* calls in sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp/s_dsqrtl.c are because
they were observed to be needed in GCC 7 testing of
riscv32-linux-gnu-rv32imac-ilp32. The other sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp/
files added didn't need such DIAG_* in any configuration I tested with
build-many-glibcs.py, but if they do turn out to be needed in more
files with some other configuration / GCC version, they can always be
added there.
I reused the same test inputs in auto-libm-test-in as for
non-narrowing sqrt rather than adding extra or separate inputs for
narrowing sqrt. The tests in libm-test-narrow-sqrt.inc also follow
those for non-narrowing sqrt.
Tested as followed: natively with the full glibc testsuite for x86_64
(GCC 11, 7, 6) and x86 (GCC 11); with build-many-glibcs.py with GCC
11, 7 and 6; cross testing of math/ tests for powerpc64le, powerpc32
hard float, mips64 (all three ABIs, both hard and soft float). The
different GCC versions are to cover the different cases in tgmath.h
and tgmath.h tests properly (GCC 6 has _Float* only as typedefs in
glibc headers, GCC 7 has proper _Float* support, GCC 8 adds
__builtin_tgmath).
We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
They provide TLS_GD/TLS_LD/TLS_IE/TLS_IE macros for TLS testing. Now
that we have migrated to __thread and tls_model attributes, these macros
are unused and the tls-macros.h files can retire.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
We'd like to support processors without Altivec or VSX, so check
the relevant hwcap bits before selecting them.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
A number of optimised memset routines assume the cacheline size is 128B,
so we better check before using them.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
We use PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX to select a number of POWER7 optimised
functions. These functions don't use any VSX instructions, so
PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_06 seems like a better fit.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
The configure script checks for -mlong-double-128 but mentions -mlongdouble
when it fails.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
5 years ago, commit 8f1b841e45
unintentionally added an ifunc to the loader.
That modification has not caused any harm so far, but it doesn't add any
value either, because the hwcap information is available later during
libc initialization.
Suggested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
This patch modifies the current POWER9 implementation of strcpy and
stpcpy to optimize it for POWER9/10.
Since no new POWER10 instructions are used, the original POWER9 strcpy is
modified instead of creating a new implementation for POWER10. This
implementation is based on both the original POWER9 implementation of
strcpy and the preamble of the new POWER10 implementation of strlen.
The changes also affect stpcpy, which uses the same implementation with
some additional code before returning.
On POWER9, averaging improvements across the benchmark
inputs (length/source alignment/destination alignment), for an
experiment that ran the benchmark five times, bench-strcpy showed an
improvement of 5.23%, and bench-stpcpy showed an improvement of 6.59%.
On POWER10, bench-strcpy showed 13.16%, and bench-stpcpy showed 13.59%.
The changes are:
1. Removed the null string optimization.
Although this results in a few extra cycles for the null string, in
combination with the second change, this resulted in improvements for
for other cases.
2. Adapted the preamble from strlen for POWER10.
This is the part of the function that handles up to the first 16 bytes
of the string.
3. Increased number of unrolled iterations in the main loop to 6.
Reviewed-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
Commit 68ab82f566 added support for the scv
syscall ABI on powerpc. Since then systems that have kernel and processor
support started using scv. However adding the proper support for a new syscall
ABI requires changes to several other projects (e.g. qemu, valgrind, strace,
kernel), which are gradually receiving support.
Meanwhile, having a way to disable scv on glibc at build time can be useful for
distros that may encounter conflicts with projects that still do not support the
scv ABI, buying time until proper support is added.
This commit adds a --disable-scv option that disables scv support and uses sc
for all syscalls, like before commit 68ab82f566.
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
Since commit 0c1c3a771e
("dlfcn: Move dlopen into libc") libdl.a is empty, so linking
against it is no longer necessary.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This patch was based on the __memcmp_power8 and the recent
__strlen_power10.
Improvements from __memcmp_power8:
1. Don't need alignment code.
On POWER10 lxvp and lxvl do not generate alignment interrupts, so
they are safe for use on caching-inhibited memory. Notice that the
comparison on the main loop will wait for both VSR to be ready.
Therefore aligning one of the input address does not improve
performance. In order to align both registers a vperm is necessary
which add too much overhead.
2. Uses new POWER10 instructions
This code uses lxvp to decrease contention on load by loading 32 bytes
per instruction.
The vextractbm is used to have a smaller tail code for calculating the
return value.
3. Performance improvement
This version has around 35% better performance on average. I saw no
performance regressions for any length or alignment.
Thanks Matheus for helping me out with some details.
Co-authored-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
When using scv for templated ASM syscalls, current code interprets any
negative return value as error, but the only valid error codes are in
the range -4095..-1 according to the ABI.
This commit also fixes 'signal.gen.test' strace test, where the issue
was first identified.
Reviewed-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
When built with GCC 11.1 and -mcpu=power9, ld.so prints this error
message when running on POWER8:
Fatal glibc error: CPU lacks ISA 3.00 support (POWER9 or later required)
Reuse code for optimized strlen to implement a faster version of rawmemchr.
This takes advantage of the same benefits provided by the strlen implementation,
but needs some extra steps. __strlen_power10 code should be unchanged after this
change.
rawmemchr returns a pointer to the char found, while strlen returns only the
length, so we have to take that into account when preparing the return value.
To quickly check 64B, the loop on __strlen_power10 merges the whole block into
16B by using unsigned minimum vector operations (vminub) and checks if there are
any \0 on the resulting vector. The same code is used by rawmemchr if the char c
is 0. However, this approach does not work when c != 0. We first need to
subtract each byte by c, so that the value we are looking for is converted to a
0, then taking the minimum and checking for nulls works again.
The new code branches after it has compared ~256 bytes and chooses which of the
two strategies above will be used in the main loop, based on the char c. This
extra branch adds some overhead (~5%) for length ~256, but is quickly amortized
by the faster loop for larger sizes.
Compared to __rawmemchr_power9, this version is ~20% faster for length < 256.
Because of the optimized main loop, the improvement becomes ~35% for c != 0
and ~50% for c = 0 for strings longer than 256.
Reviewed-by: Lucas A. M. Magalhaes <lamm@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
The hwcap2 check for the aforementioned functions should check for
both PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_3_1 and PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_ISEL but was
mistakenly checking for any one of them, enabling isa 3.1 version of
the functions in incompatible processors, like POWER8.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
This implementation is based on __memset_power8 and integrates a lot
of suggestions from Anton Blanchard.
The biggest difference is that it makes extensive use of stxvl to
alignment and tail code to avoid branches and small stores. It has
three main execution paths:
a) "Short lengths" for lengths up to 64 bytes, avoiding as many
branches as possible.
b) "General case" for larger lengths, it has an alignment section
using stxvl to avoid branches, a 128 bytes loop and then a tail
code, again using stxvl with few branches.
c) "Zeroing cache blocks" for lengths from 256 bytes upwards and set
value being zero. It is mostly the __memset_power8 code but the
alignment phase was simplified because, at this point, address is
already 16-bytes aligned and also changed to use vector stores.
The tail code was also simplified to reuse the general case tail.
All unaligned stores use stxvl instructions that do not generate
alignment interrupts on POWER10, making it safe to use on
caching-inhibited memory.
On average, this implementation provides something around 30%
improvement when compared to __memset_power8.
Reviewed-by: Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
This implementation is based on __memcpy_power8_cached and integrates
suggestions from Anton Blanchard.
It benefits from loads and stores with length for short lengths and for
tail code, simplifying the code.
All unaligned memory accesses use instructions that do not generate
alignment interrupts on POWER10, making it safe to use on
caching-inhibited memory.
The main loop has also been modified in order to increase instruction
throughput by reducing the dependency on updates from previous iterations.
On average, this implementation provides around 30% improvement when
compared to __memcpy_power7 and 10% improvement in comparison to
__memcpy_power8_cached.
This patch was initially based on the __memmove_power7 with some ideas
from strncpy implementation for Power 9.
Improvements from __memmove_power7:
1. Use lxvl/stxvl for alignment code.
The code for Power 7 uses branches when the input is not naturally
aligned to the width of a vector. The new implementation uses
lxvl/stxvl instead which reduces pressure on GPRs. It also allows
the removal of branch instructions, implicitly removing branch stalls
and mispredictions.
2. Use of lxv/stxv and lxvl/stxvl pair is safe to use on Cache Inhibited
memory.
On Power 10 vector load and stores are safe to use on CI memory for
addresses unaligned to 16B. This code takes advantage of this to
do unaligned loads.
The unaligned loads don't have a significant performance impact by
themselves. However doing so decreases register pressure on GPRs
and interdependence stalls on load/store pairs. This also improved
readability as there are now less code paths for different alignments.
Finally this reduces the overall code size.
3. Improved performance.
This version runs on average about 30% better than memmove_power7
for lengths larger than 8KB. For input lengths shorter than 8KB
the improvement is smaller, it has on average about 17% better
performance.
This version has a degradation of about 50% for input lengths
in the 0 to 31 bytes range when dest is unaligned.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
Improvements compared to POWER9 version:
1. Take into account first 16B comparison for aligned strings
The previous version compares the first 16B and increments r4 by the number
of bytes until the address is 16B-aligned, then starts doing aligned loads at
that address. For aligned strings, this causes the first 16B to be compared
twice, because the increment is 0. Here we calculate the next 16B-aligned
address differently, which avoids that issue.
2. Use simple comparisons for the first ~192 bytes
The main loop is good for big strings, but comparing 16B each time is better
for smaller strings. So after aligning the address to 16 Bytes, we check
more 176B in 16B chunks. There may be some overlaps with the main loop for
unaligned strings, but we avoid using the more aggressive strategy too soon,
and also allow the loop to start at a 64B-aligned address. This greatly
benefits smaller strings and avoids overlapping checks if the string is
already aligned at a 64B boundary.
3. Reduce dependencies between load blocks caused by address calculation on loop
Doing a precise time tracing on the code showed many loads in the loop were
stalled waiting for updates to r4 from previous code blocks. This
implementation avoids that as much as possible by using 2 registers (r4 and
r5) to hold addresses to be used by different parts of the code.
Also, the previous code aligned the address to 16B, then to 64B by doing a
few 48B loops (if needed) until the address was aligned. The main loop could
not start until that 48B loop had finished and r4 was updated with the
current address. Here we calculate the address used by the loop very early,
so it can start sooner.
The main loop now uses 2 pointers 128B apart to make pointer updates less
frequent, and also unrolls 1 iteration to guarantee there is enough time
between iterations to update the pointers, reducing stalled cycles.
4. Use new P10 instructions
lxvp is used to load 32B with a single instruction, reducing contention in
the load queue.
vextractbm allows simplifying the tail code for the loop, replacing
vbpermq and avoiding having to generate a permute control vector.
Reviewed-by: Paul E Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lucas A. M. Magalhaes <lamm@linux.ibm.com>
