Old Linux kernels disable SVE after every system call. Calling the
SVE-optimized memcpy afterwards will then cause a trap to reenable SVE.
As a result, applications with a high use of syscalls may run slower with
the SVE memcpy. This is true for kernels between 4.15.0 and before 6.2.0,
except for 5.14.0 which was patched. Avoid this by checking the kernel
version and selecting the SVE ifunc on modern kernels.
Parse the kernel version reported by uname() into a 24-bit kernel.major.minor
value without calling any library functions. If uname() is not supported or
if the version format is not recognized, assume the kernel is modern.
Tested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Add support for MOPS in cpu_features and INIT_ARCH. Add ifuncs using MOPS for
memcpy, memmove and memset (use .inst for now so it works with all binutils
versions without needing complex configure and conditional compilation).
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
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
This patch optimizes the performance of memcpy/memmove for A64FX [1]
which implements ARMv8-A SVE and has L1 64KB cache per core and L2 8MB
cache per NUMA node.
The performance optimization makes use of Scalable Vector Register
with several techniques such as loop unrolling, memory access
alignment, cache zero fill, and software pipelining.
SVE assembler code for memcpy/memmove is implemented as Vector Length
Agnostic code so theoretically it can be run on any SOC which supports
ARMv8-A SVE standard.
We confirmed that all testcases have been passed by running 'make
check' and 'make xcheck' not only on A64FX but also on ThunderX2.
And also we confirmed that the SVE 512 bit vector register performance
is roughly 4 times better than Advanced SIMD 128 bit register and 8
times better than scalar 64 bit register by running 'make bench'.
[1] https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Some IFUNC variants are not compatible with BTI and MTE so don't
set them as usable for testing and benchmarking on a BTI or MTE
enabled system.
As far as IFUNC selectors are concerned a system is BTI enabled if
the cpu supports it and glibc was built with BTI branch protection.
Most IFUNC variants are BTI compatible, but thunderx2 memcpy and
memmove use a jump table with indirect jump, without a BTI j.
Fixes bug 26818.
The hwcap value is now in linux 5.10 and in glibc bits/hwcap.h, so use
that definition.
Move the definition to init-arch.h so all ifunc selectors can use it
and expose an "mte" shorthand for mte enabled runtime.
For now we allow user code to enable tag checks and use PROT_MTE
mappings without libc involvment, this is not guaranteed ABI, but
can be useful for testing and debugging with MTE.
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 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
