kernel_optimize_test/lib
Linus Torvalds 36126f8f2e word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic
This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> to be a bit more
complicated, but a lot more generic.

In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on
both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of
machine details.  For example, if you can rely on a fast population
count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your
optimized <asm/word-at-a-time.h> file with that.

NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is
not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian.  Why? Because
on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can
inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that.

(The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is
the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version
of it.  And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular
header file, that would be lovely)

The <asm/word-at-a-time.h> functions are as follows:

 - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm
   uses.

 - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it.
   It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to
   an intermediate "data" field it can set.

   This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside
   the hot loops.

 - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced,
   and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had
   the first zero.  This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows
   the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte"
   question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the
   first one to contain a zero.

   If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which
   looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask()
   phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either
   or" case.

 - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()"
   (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into
   "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the
   zero byte).

   The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary
   for the normal string routines.  But dentry name hashing needs it, so
   if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it.

This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry
hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces.  This
gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in
the previous commit when moving over to the generic version.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
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lzo
mpi
raid6
reed_solomon
xz
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate
.gitignore
argv_split.c
atomic64_test.c
atomic64.c
audit.c
average.c
bcd.c
bch.c
bitmap.c
bitrev.c
bsearch.c
btree.c
bug.c
bust_spinlocks.c
check_signature.c
checksum.c
clz_tab.c
cmdline.c
cordic.c
cpu_rmap.c
cpu-notifier-error-inject.c
cpumask.c
crc-ccitt.c
crc-itu-t.c
crc-t10dif.c
crc7.c
crc8.c
crc16.c
crc32.c
crc32defs.h
ctype.c
debug_locks.c
debugobjects.c
dec_and_lock.c
decompress_bunzip2.c
decompress_inflate.c
decompress_unlzma.c
decompress_unlzo.c
decompress_unxz.c
decompress.c
devres.c
digsig.c
div64.c
dma-debug.c
dump_stack.c
dynamic_debug.c
dynamic_queue_limits.c
extable.c
fault-inject.c
find_last_bit.c
find_next_bit.c
flex_array.c
gcd.c
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c
halfmd4.c
hexdump.c
hweight.c
idr.c
inflate.c
int_sqrt.c
iomap_copy.c
iomap.c
iommu-helper.c
ioremap.c
irq_regs.c
is_single_threaded.c
jedec_ddr_data.c
kasprintf.c
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2012-05-24 15:10:28 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Kconfig.kgdb
Kconfig.kmemcheck
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c
kobject.c
kstrtox.c
kstrtox.h
lcm.c
libcrc32c.c
list_debug.c
list_sort.c
llist.c
locking-selftest-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-mutex.h
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h
locking-selftest-rsem.h
locking-selftest-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h
locking-selftest-wsem.h
locking-selftest.c
lru_cache.c
Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2012-05-24 15:10:28 -07:00
md5.c
nlattr.c
parser.c
pci_iomap.c
percpu_counter.c
plist.c
prio_heap.c
prio_tree.c
proportions.c
radix-tree.c
random32.c
ratelimit.c
rational.c
rbtree.c
reciprocal_div.c
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c
scatterlist.c
sha1.c
show_mem.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c
string_helpers.c
string.c
strncpy_from_user.c word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic 2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
swiotlb.c
syscall.c
test-kstrtox.c
textsearch.c
timerqueue.c
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
uuid.c
vsprintf.c