Add support for MTE to strcmp. Regression tested with xcheck and benchmarked
with glibc's benchtests on the Cortex-A53, Cortex-A72, and Neoverse N1.
The existing implementation assumes that any access to the pages in which the
string resides is safe. This assumption is not true when MTE is enabled. This
patch updates the algorithm to ensure that accesses remain within the bounds
of an MTE tag (16-byte chunks) and improves overall performance.
Co-authored-by: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>
I accidentally set the loop jump back label as misaligned8 instead of
do_misaligned. The typo is harmless but it's always nice to not have
to unnecessarily execute those two instructions.
* sysdeps/aarch64/strcmp.S (do_misaligned): Jump back to
do_misaligned, not misaligned8.
Replace the simple byte-wise compare in the misaligned case with a
dword compare with page boundary checks in place. For simplicity I've
chosen a 4K page boundary so that we don't have to query the actual
page size on the system.
This results in up to 3x improvement in performance in the unaligned
case on falkor and about 2.5x improvement on mustang as measured using
bench-strcmp.
* sysdeps/aarch64/strcmp.S (misaligned8): Compare dword at a
time whenever possible.
This patch moves the AArch64 port to the main sysdeps hierarchy. The
move is essentially:
git mv ports/sysdeps/aarch64 sysdeps/aarch64
git mv ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64
The README is updated and I've updated ChangeLog.aarch64 along the
lines of the ARM move. The AArch64 build has been tested to confirm
that there were no changes in objdump -dr output or the shared
objects.
