http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00097.html
This is the first of nine patches adding little-endian support to the
existing optimised string and memory functions. I did spend some
time with a power7 simulator looking at cycle by cycle behaviour for
memchr, but most of these patches have not been run on cpu simulators
to check that we are going as fast as possible. I'm sure PowerPC can
do better. However, the little-endian support mostly leaves main
loops unchanged, so I'm banking on previous authors having done a
good job on big-endian.. As with most code you stare at long enough,
I found some improvements for big-endian too.
Little-endian support for strlen. Like most of the string functions,
I leave the main word or multiple-word loops substantially unchanged,
just needing to modify the tail.
Removing the branch in the power7 functions is just a tidy. .align
produces a branch anyway. Modifying regs in the non-power7 functions
is to suit the new little-endian tail.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/strlen.S (strlen): Add little-endian
support. Don't branch over align.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/strlen.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/strlen.S (strlen): Add little-endian support.
Rearrange tmp reg use to suit. Comment.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/strlen.S: Likewise.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00090.html
This patch fixes symbol versioning in setjmp/longjmp. The existing
code uses raw versions, which results in wrong symbol versioning when
you want to build glibc with a base version of 2.19 for LE.
Note that the merging the 64-bit and 32-bit versions in novmx-lonjmp.c
and pt-longjmp.c doesn't result in GLIBC_2.0 versions for 64-bit, due
to the base in shlib_versions.
* sysdeps/powerpc/longjmp.c: Use proper symbol versioning macros.
* sysdeps/powerpc/novmx-longjmp.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/bsd-_setjmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/bsd-setjmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/__longjmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/setjmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/mcount.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/setjmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/setjmp.S: Likewise.
* nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/pt-longjmp.c: Likewise.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00089.html
Little-endian fixes for setjmp/longjmp. When writing these I noticed
the setjmp code corrupts the non volatile VMX registers when using an
unaligned buffer. Anton fixed this, and also simplified it quite a
bit.
The current code uses boilerplate for the case where we want to store
16 bytes to an unaligned address. For that we have to do a
read/modify/write of two aligned 16 byte quantities. In our case we
are storing a bunch of back to back data (consective VMX registers),
and only the start and end of the region need the read/modify/write.
[BZ #15723]
* sysdeps/powerpc/jmpbuf-offsets.h: Comment fix.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/__longjmp-common.S: Correct
_dl_hwcap access for little-endian.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/setjmp-common.S: Likewise. Don't
destroy vmx regs when saving unaligned.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/__longjmp-common.S: Correct CR load.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/setjmp-common.S: Likewise CR save. Don't
destroy vmx regs when saving unaligned.
The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not initialized for
static applications resulting in the security feature being disabled.
The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a random value for
static applications. Existing static applications need to be
recompiled to take advantage of the fix.
The test tst-ptrguard1-static and tst-ptrguard1 add regression
coverage to ensure the pointer guards are sufficiently random
and initialized to a default value.
This patch fixes backtrace for PPC32 and PPC64 to correctly handle
signal trampolines. The 'debug/tst-backtrace6.c' also check for
SA_SIGINFO handling, where is triggers another vDSO symbols for PPC32.
Resolves: #15465
The program name may be unavailable if the user application tampers
with argc and argv[]. Some parts of the dynamic linker caters for
this while others don't, so this patch consolidates the check and
fallback into a single macro and updates all users.
This patch fix the 3c0265394d commits
by correctly setting minimum architecture for modf PPC optimization
to power5+ instead of power5 (since only on power5+ round/ceil will
be inline to inline assembly).
The branch prediction hints is actually hurts performance in this case.
The assembly implementation make two assumptions: 1. 'fabs (x) < 2^52'
is unlikely and 2. 'x > 0.0' is unlike (if 1. is true). Since it a
general floating point function, expected input is not bounded and then
it is better to let the hardware handle the branches.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_ceil.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_finite.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_floor.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_frexp.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_isinf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_isnan.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_llround.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_logb.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_lround.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_modf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_nearbyint.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_remquo.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_rint.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_round.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_scalbln.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_scalbn.c: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64/s_trunc.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/Implies: Add
ieee754/ldbl-opt/wordsize-64.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/Implies: Add
ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64.
Initially based on the versions found in wcsmbs/* ; these files have
been changed by hand unrolling, and adding some additional variables
to allow some read-ahead to occur, which then relieves some of the
wait-for-increment/wait-for-load/wait-for-compare-results pressure
that was slowing down every iteration through the while-loop.
For 64-bit Power7, These changes give an approx 20% throughput boost
for the wcschr and wcsrchr functions; and approx 40% boost for the
wcscpy function. 32-bit improvements appear to be slightly better
with ~ %30 and ~ %45 respectively. Results for Power6 closely match
those for power7.
Assorted tweaking, twisting and tuning to squeeze a few additional cycles
out of the memchr code. Changes include bypassing the shift pairs
(sld,srd) when they are not required, and unrolling the small_loop that
handles short and trailing strings.
Per scrollpipe data measuring aligned strings for 64-bit, these changes
save between five and eight cycles (9-13% overall) for short strings (<32),
Longer aligned strings see slight improvement of 1-3% due to bypassing the
shifts and the instruction rearranging.
