Linux commit b4b56f9ecab40f3b4ef53e130c9f6663be491894 introduced
a new HWCAP2 bit to indicate that the kernel now aborts a memory
transaction when a syscall is made. This patch adds that bit to
sysdeps/powerpc/bits/hwcap.h.
2015-08-26 Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/hwcap.h: Add PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c:
(_dl_powerpc_cap_flags): Added descriptor for this hwcap
feature so it shows when LD_SHOW_AUXV=1.
Fix usage of tabort in generated syscalls. r0 has special meaning
when used with this instruction, thus it will not generate
persistent errors, nor return an error code. This mitigates poor
CPU usage when performing elided critical sections.
Additionally, transactions should be aborted when entering a user
invoked syscall. Otherwise the results of the transaction may be
undefined.
2015-08-25 Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Use
register other than r0 for tabort, it has special meaning.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Likewise
* sysdeps/unix.sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S (syscall): Abort
transaction before starting syscall.
Instead of checking needle length, constant 'n' number of comparisons
is checked to fall back to default implementation. This patch is tested
on powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
2015-08-25 Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S: Handle worst case.
In powerpc64, memchr was always pointing to the internal __GI_memchr
implementation. This patch fixes that and makes it use the
optimized POWER7 version when adequate.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memchr-ppc64.c: Make
memchr not point to the internal __GI_memchr implementation.
This patch adds extra inline functions to change the Program Priority
Register from ISA 2.07.
2015-08-19 Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gftg@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/sys/platform/ppc.h (__ppc_set_ppr_med_high,
__ppc_set_ppr_very_low): New functions.
* manual/platform.texi: Add documentation about
__ppc_set_ppr_med_high and __ppc_set_ppr_very_low.
Some features in hwcap.h do not have matching string descriptors
to be displayed when LD_SHOW_AUXV=1. This patch fixes the problem.
2015-08-13 Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c:
(_dl_powerpc_cap_flags): Added missing strings for some
hwcap features.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.h: Updated hwcap bit count.
When building with --disable-multi-arch the memmove and strstr POWER7
optimization create and uses symbols that conflict with expect conform
tests.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memmove.S (bcopy): Changing to
__bcopy and add a weak_alias to bcopy.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S (strstr): Use __strnlen
for static build.
This patches uses the default strcpy/stpcpy implementation for
POWER7/PPC64. This is faster in mostly inputs for benchtests
and for multiarch the implementation uses the POWER7 strlen and
memcpy.
* string/stpcpy.c (__stpcpy): Use STPCPY to redefine symbol name and
cleanup macro usage.
* string/strcpy.c (strcpt): Use STRCPY to redefine symbol name.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy-power7.S: Remove file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy-ppc64.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy-power7.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy-ppc64.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/stpcpy.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strcpy.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strcpy.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/stpcpy.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/strcpy.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy.c
[SHARED && IS_IN (libc)]: Include <string/strcpy.c>.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy.c
[SHARED && IS_IN (libc)]: Include <string/stpcpy.c>.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy-power7.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/stpcpy-ppc64.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy-power7.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strcpy-ppc64.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strcpy.c: Likewise.
This patch fixes the strstr build with --disable-multi-arch option.
The optimization calls the __strstr_ppc symbol, which always build
for multiarch config but not if it is disable. This patch fixes it
by adding the default C implementation object with the expected
symbol name.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/Makefile [$(subdir) = string]
(sysdep_routines): Add strstr-ppc64.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr-ppc64.c: New file.
This patch optimizes strstr function for power >= 7 systems. Performance
gain is obtained using aligned memory access and usage of cmpb
instruction for quicker comparison. The average improvement of this
optimization is ~40%. Tested on ppc64 and ppc64le.
2015-07-16 Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile: Add strstr().
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strstr.S: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-power7.S: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr-ppc64.c: New File.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/strstr.c: New File.
Similar to various other bugs in this area, some sin and sincos
implementations do not raise the underflow exception for subnormal
arguments, when the result is tiny and inexact. This patch forces the
exception in a similar way to previous fixes.
Tested for x86_64, x86, mips64 and powerpc.
[BZ #16526]
[BZ #16538]
* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c: Include <float.h>.
(__sin): Force underflow exception for arguments with small
absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/k_sinf.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sinf): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/k_sincosl.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sincosl): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/k_sinl.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sinl): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/k_sincosl.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sincosl): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/k_sinl.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sinl): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/k_sinl.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sinl): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/k_sinf.c: Include <float.h>.
(__kernel_sinf): Force underflow exception for arguments with
small absolute value.
* math/auto-libm-test-in: Add more tests of sin and sincos.
* math/auto-libm-test-out: Regenerated.
Various code in glibc uses __strnlen instead of strnlen for namespace
reasons. However, __strnlen does not use libc_hidden_proto /
libc_hidden_def (as is normally done for any function defined and
called within the same library, whether or not exported from the
library and whatever namespace it is in), so the compiler does not
know that those calls are to a function within libc.
This patch uses libc_hidden_proto / libc_hidden_def with __strnlen.
On x86_64, it makes no difference to the installed stripped shared
libraries. On 32-bit x86, it causes __strnlen calls to go to the same
place as strnlen calls (the fallback strnlen implementation), rather
than through a PLT entry for the strnlen IFUNC; I'm not sure of the
logic behind when calls from within libc should use IFUNCs versus when
they should go direct to a particular function implementation, but
clearly it doesn't make sense for strnlen and __strnlen to be handled
differently in this regard.
Tested for x86_64 and x86 (testsuite, and comparison of installed
shared libraries as described above).
* string/strnlen.c [!STRNLEN] (__strnlen): Use libc_hidden_def.
* include/string.h (__strnlen): Use libc_hidden_proto.
* sysdeps/aarch64/strnlen.S (__strnlen): Use libc_hidden_def.
* sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strnlen-c.c [SHARED]
(libc_hidden_def): Define __GI___strnlen as well as __GI_strnlen.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/strnlen-power7.S
(libc_hidden_def): Undefine and redefine.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/strnlen-ppc32.c
[SHARED] (libc_hidden_def): Define __GI___strnlen as well as
__GI_strnlen.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/strnlen.S (__strnlen): Use
libc_hidden_def.
* sysdeps/tile/tilegx/strnlen.c (__strnlen): Likewise.
This patch fix the static build for strftime, which uses __wcschr.
Current powerpc32 implementation defines the __wcschr be an alias to
__wcschr_ppc32 and current implementation misses the correct alias for
static build.
It also changes the default wcschr.c logic so a IFUNC implementation
should just define WCSCHR and undefine the required alias/internal
definitions.
IFUNC is difficult to correctly implement on any target needing a GOT
to support position independent code, due to the dependency on order
of dynamic relocations. ld.so should be changed to apply IFUNC
relocations last, globally, because without that it is actually
impossible to write an IFUNC resolver in C that works in all
situations. Case in point, vfork in libpthread.so is an IFUNC with
the resolver returning &__libc_vfork. (system and fork are similar.)
If another shared library, libA say, uses vfork then it is quite
possible that libpthread.so hasn't been dynamically relocated before
the unfortunate libA is dynamically relocated. In that case the GOT
entry for &__libc_vfork is still zero, so the IFUNC resolver returns
NULL. LD_BIND_NOW=1 results in libA PLT dynamic relocations being
applied using this NULL value and ld.so segfaults.
This patch hardens ld.so to not segfault on a NULL from an IFUNC
resolver. It also fixes a problem with undefined weak. If you leave
the plt entry as-is for undefined weak then if the entry is ever
called it will loop in ld.so rather than segfaulting.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_fixup_plt):
Don't segfault if ifunc resolver returns a NULL. Do set plt to
zero for undefined weak.
(elf_machine_plt_conflict): Similarly.
This patch is glibc support for a PowerPC TLS optimization, inspired
by Alexandre Oliva's TLS optimization for other processors,
http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/writeups/TLS/RFC-TLSDESC-x86.txt
In essence, this optimization uses a zero module id in the tls_index
GOT entry to indicate that a TLS variable is allocated space in the
static TLS area. A special plt call linker stub for __tls_get_addr
checks for such a tls_index and if found, returns the offset
immediately. The linker communicates the fact that the special
__tls_get_addr stub is used by setting a bit in the dynamic tag
DT_PPC64_OPT/DT_PPC_OPT. glibc communicates to the linker that this
optimization is available by the presence of __tls_get_addr_opt.
tst-tlsmod2.so is built with -Wl,--no-tls-get-addr-optimize for
tst-tls-dlinfo, which otherwise would fail since it tests that no
static tls is allocated. The ld option --no-tls-get-addr-optimize has
been available since binutils-2.20 so doesn't need a configure test.
* NEWS: Advertise TLS optimization.
* elf/elf.h (R_PPC_TLSGD, R_PPC_TLSLD, DT_PPC_OPT, PPC_OPT_TLS): Define.
(DT_PPC_NUM): Increment.
* elf/dynamic-link.h (HAVE_STATIC_TLS): Define.
(CHECK_STATIC_TLS): Use here.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_rela): Optimize
TLS descriptors.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_rela): Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-tls.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/Versions: Add __tls_get_addr_opt.
* sysdeps/powerpc/tst-tlsopt-powerpc.c: New tls test.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/Makefile: Add new test.
Build tst-tlsmod2.so with --no-tls-get-addr-optimize.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/ld.abilist: Update.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/ld.abilist: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/ld-le.abilist: Likewise.
This feature doesn't depend on the linker, as can be seen from the
actual test. It's a compiler feature.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/configure.ac: Correct "linker support
for overlapping .opd entries" to "support...".
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/configure: Regenerate
In bc0cdc498 the configure check for HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 was removed
on the grounds that the minimum binutils supports rel16 relocs. This
is true, but not all references to HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 in the sources
were removed.
* config.h.in: Remove HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/tls-macros.h: Remove HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16
and false branch of conditional.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/swapcontext-common.S:
Likewise.
This patch makes soft-fp use static assertions in place of conditional
calls to abort, in places where there are checks for conditions (on
the types for which a macro is used) that the code is not prepared to
handle. The fallback definition of _FP_STATIC_ASSERT (for kernel use
only, as only relevant to compilers not supported for building glibc)
is as in misc/sys/cdefs.h.
This means that soft-fp only ever calls abort for _FP_UNREACHABLE
calls in builds with GCC versions before 4.5. Thus, there is no need
for an abort declaration or <stdlib.h> include, since the kernel code
handles defining abort as a macro itself - and so this avoids any need
for an __KERNEL__ condition on the abort declaration to avoid it
breaking with the kernel's macro definition. That is, this patch is
intended to make glibc's soft-fp code suitable for kernel use with no
kernel-local changes to the soft-fp code needed at all.
Tested for powerpc-nofpu that installed stripped shared libraries are
unchanged by the patch. One explicit <stdlib.h> include had to be
added to a file that was relying on the include from soft-fp.h.
* soft-fp/soft-fp.h (_FP_STATIC_ASSERT): New macro.
[_LIBC]: Do not include <stdlib.h>.
[!_LIBC] (abort): Remove declaration.
* soft-fp/op-2.h (_FP_MUL_MEAT_2_120_240_double): Use
_FP_STATIC_ASSERT instead of conditionally calling abort.
* soft-fp/op-common.h (_FP_FROM_INT): Likewise.
(_FP_EXTEND_CNAN): Likewise.
(FP_TRUNC): Likewise.
(__FP_CLZ): Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu/flt-rounds.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
With AIX port deprecated there is no need to check/define
HAVE_ASM_GLOBAL_DOT_NAME anymore since the current minimum binutils
supported (2.22) does not emit global symbol with dot.
This patch removes all the HAVE_ASM_GLOBAL_DOT_NAME definition and
checks for powerpc64 port.
This patch fixes the inline feraiseexcept and feclearexcept macros for
powerpc by casting the input argument to integer before operation on it.
It fixes BZ#17776.
This patch fixes the missing "__memcpy_ppc" symbol for memmove-ppc64
object in static builds. Since memcpy ifunc is not enabled in static
mode, the specialized symbols are not provided. The patch changed the
it to just "__memcpy" instead.
Similarly to sqrt in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-02/msg00353.html>, the
powerpc sqrtf implementation for when _ARCH_PPCSQ is not defined also
relies on a * b + c being contracted into a fused multiply-add.
Although this contraction is not explicitly disabled for e_sqrtf.c, it
still seems appropriate to make the file explicit about its
requirements by using __builtin_fmaf; this patch does so.
Furthermore, it turns out that doing so fixes the observed inaccuracy
and missing exceptions (that is, that without explicit __builtin_fmaf
usage, it was not being compiled as intended).
Tested for powerpc32 (hard float).
[BZ #17967]
* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrtf.c (__slow_ieee754_sqrtf): Use
__builtin_fmaf instead of relying on contraction of a * b + c.
As Adhemerval noted in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-01/msg00451.html>, the
powerpc sqrt implementation for when _ARCH_PPCSQ is not defined is
inaccurate in some cases.
The problem is that this code relies on fused multiply-add, and relies
on the compiler contracting a * b + c to get a fused operation. But
sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/Makefile disables contraction for e_sqrt.c,
because the implementation in that directory relies on *not* having
contracted operations.
While it would be possible to arrange makefiles so that an earlier
sysdeps directory can disable the setting in
sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/Makefile, it seems a lot cleaner to make the
dependence on fused operations explicit in the .c file. GCC 4.6
introduced support for __builtin_fma on powerpc and other
architectures with such instructions, so we can rely on that; this
patch duly makes the code use __builtin_fma for all such fused
operations.
Tested for powerpc32 (hard float).
2015-02-12 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[BZ #17964]
* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrt.c (__slow_ieee754_sqrt): Use
__builtin_fma instead of relying on contraction of a * b + c.
This patch optimizes strncpy for power7 for unaligned source or
destination address. The source or destination address is aligned
to doubleword and data is shifted based on the alignment and
added with the previous loaded data to be written as a doubleword.
For each load, cmpb instruction is used for faster null check.
The new optimization shows 10 to 70% of performance improvement
for longer string though it does not show big difference on string
size less than 16 due to additional checks.Hence this new algorithm
is restricted to string greater than 16.
Current minimum binutils supported (2.22) has ".machine altivec" support
as default, so there is no need to add a configure check for such
functionality. This patches removes the configure checks for it.
This patch cleanup some multiarch code related to memmmove
optimization. Initial IFUNC support added specialized wordcopy
symbols which turned in local IFUNC calls used by memmove default
implementation. The patch removes the internal IFUNC for wordcopy
symbols and uses local branches in the memmmove optimization instead.
This patch cleanup some multiarch code related to memmmove
optimization. Initial IFUNC support added specialized wordcopy
symbols which turned in local IFUNC calls used by memmove default
implementation.
This change by removing then and used the optimized memmove instead
for supported chips.
This patch simplify the default bcopy symbol for powerpc64 by just using
memmove instead of implementing using the default bcopy. Since the
symbol is deprecated, it trades speed by code size.
This patch fixes a bug introduced by 18f2945ae9, where it optimizes
the FPSCR set by just issuing a mtfs instruction if new flag is different
from older one. The issue is a typo, where the new flag should the the
new value, instead of the old one.
It fixes BZ#17885.
Some powerpc64 processors (e5500 core for instance) does not provide the
fsqrt instruction, however current check to use in math_private.h is
__WORDSIZE and _ARCH_PWR4 (ISA 2.02). This is patch change it to use
the compiler flag _ARCH_PPCSQ (which is the same condition GCC uses to
decide whether to generate fsqrt instruction).
It fixes BZ#16576.
GLIBC memset optimization for POWER8 uses the '.machine power8'
directive, which is only supported officially on binutils 2.24+. This
causes a build failure on older binutils.
Since the requirement of .machine power8 is to correctly assembly the
'mtvsrd' instruction and it is already handled by the MTVSRD_V1_R4
macro, there is no really needed of using it.
The patch replaces the power8 with power7 for .machine directive.
It fixes BZ#17869.
This patch fix the elf/ifuncmain6pie failure when building with GCC
4.9+. For some reason, the compiler removes the branch taken code at
resolve_ifunc (sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h) as dead-code
and thus the testcase fails because the ifunc resolves branches to an
invalid memory location. It fixes by explicit adding a dependency of
value based on odp variable to avoid compiler optimization.
It fixes BZ#17868.
When fixing namespace issues for <fenv.h> functions I missed one call
to fesetenv for powerpc-nofpu. This patch changes this to a call to
__fesetenv.
Tested for powerpc-nofpu; it fixes the previously observed math.h
linknamespace test failures.
[BZ #17748]
* sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu/feholdexcpt.c (__feholdexcept): Call
__fesetenv instead of fesetenv.
This patch fixes a performance regression on the POWER7/PPC64 memcmp
porting for Little Endian. The LE code uses 'ldbrx' instruction to read
the memory on byte reversed form, however ISA 2.06 just provide the indexed
form which uses a register value as additional index, instead of a fixed value
enconded in the instruction.
And the port strategy for LE uses r0 index value and update the address
value on each compare loop interation. For large compare size values,
it adds 8 more instructions plus some more depending of trailing
size. This patch fixes it by adding pre-calculate indexes to remove the
address update on loops and tailing sizes.
For large sizes it shows a considerable gain, with double performance
pairing with BE.
This patch adds an optimized POWER8 strncmp. The implementation focus
on speeding up unaligned cases follwing the ideas of power8 strcmp.
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
(where sources alignment are different).
This patch optimized the POWER7 trailing check by avoiding using byte
read operations and instead use the doubleword already readed with
bitwise operations.
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
