Commit f0fbf0abc0 ("x86: integrate delay functions") converted
delay_tsc() into a random delay generator for 64 bit. The reason is
that it merged the mostly identical versions of delay_32.c and
delay_64.c. Though the subtle difference of the result was:
static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
{
- unsigned bclock, now;
+ unsigned long bclock, now;
Now the function uses rdtscl() which returns the lower 32bit of the
TSC. On 32bit that's not problematic as unsigned long is 32bit. On 64
bit this fails when the lower 32bit are close to wrap around when
bclock is read, because the following check
if ((now - bclock) >= loops)
break;
evaluated to true on 64bit for e.g. bclock = 0xffffffff and now = 0
because the unsigned long (now - bclock) of these values results in
0xffffffff00000001 which is definitely larger than the loops
value. That explains Tvortkos observation:
"Because I am seeing udelay(500) (_occasionally_) being short, and
that by delaying for some duration between 0us (yep) and 491us."
Make those variables explicitely u32 again, so this works for both 32
and 64 bit.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.27
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/accounting, proc: Fix /proc/stat interrupts sum
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tracepoints/module: Fix disabling tracepoints with taint CRAP or OOT
x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore
x86/kprobes: Fix typo transferred from Intel manual
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, syscall: Need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC for 32 bits
x86, tsc: Fix SMI induced variation in quick_pit_calibrate()
x86, opcode: ANDN and Group 17 in x86-opcode-map.txt
x86/kconfig: Move the ZONE_DMA entry under a menu
x86/UV2: Add accounting for BAU strong nacks
x86/UV2: Ack BAU interrupt earlier
x86/UV2: Remove stale no-resources test for UV2 BAU
x86/UV2: Work around BAU bug
x86/UV2: Fix BAU destination timeout initialization
x86/UV2: Fix new UV2 hardware by using native UV2 broadcast mode
x86: Get rid of dubious one-bit signed bitfield
The Intel documentation at
http://software.intel.com/file/36945
shows the ANDN opcode and Group 17 with encoding f2 and f3 encoding
respectively. The current version of x86-opcode-map.txt shows them
with f3 and f4. Unless someone can point to documentation which shows
the currently used encoding the following patch be applied.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOPLpQdq5SuVo9=023CYhbFLAX9rONyjmYq7jJkqc5xwctW5eA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt file [used by the
kprobes instruction decoder] contains the line:
af: SCAS/W/D/Q rAX,Xv
This is what the Intel manuals show, but it's not correct.
The 'X' stands for:
Memory addressed by the DS:rSI register pair (for example, MOVS, CMPS, OUTS, or LODS).
On the other hand 'Y' means (also see the ae byte entry for
SCASB):
Memory addressed by the ES:rDI register pair (for example, MOVS, CMPS, INS, STOS, or SCAS).
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOPLpQfytPyDEBF1Hbkpo7ovUerEsstVGxBr%3DEpDL-BKEMaqLA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86: Fix atomic64_xxx_cx8() functions
x86: Fix and improve cmpxchg_double{,_local}()
x86_64, asm: Optimise fls(), ffs() and fls64()
x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__
x86: Fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double()
x86: Report cpb and eff_freq_ro flags correctly
x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit
x86: Use the same node_distance for 32 and 64-bit
x86: Fix rflags in FAKE_STACK_FRAME
x86: Clean up and extend do_int3()
x86: Call do_notify_resume() with interrupts enabled
x86/div64: Add a micro-optimization shortcut if base is power of two
x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points
x86-64: Slightly shorten line system call entry and exit paths
x86-64: Reduce amount of redundant code generated for invalidate_interruptNN
x86-64: Slightly shorten int_ret_from_sys_call
x86, efi: Convert efi_phys_get_time() args to physical addresses
x86: Default to vsyscall=emulate
x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults
x86: consolidate xchg and xadd macros
...
Current i386 strlen() hardcodes NOT/DEC sequence. DEC is
mentioned to be suboptimal on Core2. So, put only REPNE SCASB
sequence in assembly, compiler can do the rest.
The difference in generated code is like below (MCORE2=y):
<strlen>:
push %edi
mov $0xffffffff,%ecx
mov %eax,%edi
xor %eax,%eax
repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al
not %ecx
- dec %ecx
- mov %ecx,%eax
+ lea -0x1(%ecx),%eax
pop %edi
ret
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111211181319.GA17097@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since new Intel software developers manual introduces
new format for AVX instruction set (including AVX2),
it is important to update x86-opcode-map.txt to fit
those changes.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111205120557.15475.13236.stgit@cloud
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For reducing memory usage of attribute table, x86 instruction
decoder puts "Group" attribute only on "no-last-prefix"
attribute table (same as vex_p == 0 case).
Thus, the decoder should look no-last-prefix table first, and
then only if it is not a group, move on to "with-last-prefix"
table (vex_p != 0).
However, current implementation, inat_get_avx_attribute()
looks with-last-prefix directly. So, when decoding
a grouped AVX instruction, the decoder fails to find correct
group because there is no "Group" attribute on the table.
This ends up with the mis-decoding of instructions, as Ingo
reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1214103
This patch fixes it to check no-last-prefix table first
even if that is an AVX instruction, and get an attribute from
"with last-prefix" table only if that is not a group.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111205120539.15475.91428.stgit@cloud
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix x86 insn decoder for hardening against invalid length
instructions. This adds length checkings for each byte-read
site and if it exceeds MAX_INSN_SIZE, returns immediately.
This can happen when decoding user-space binary.
Caller can check whether it happened by checking insn.*.got
member is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111007133155.10933.58577.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other
library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32
and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With the write lock path simply subtracting RW_LOCK_BIAS there
is, on large systems, the theoretical possibility of overflowing
the 32-bit value that was used so far (namely if 128 or more
CPUs manage to do the subtraction, but don't get to do the
inverse addition in the failure path quickly enough).
A first measure is to modify RW_LOCK_BIAS itself - with the new
value chosen, it is good for up to 2048 CPUs each allowed to
nest over 2048 times on the read path without causing an issue.
Quite possibly it would even be sufficient to adjust the bias a
little further, assuming that allowing for significantly less
nesting would suffice.
However, as the original value chosen allowed for even more
nesting levels, to support more than 2048 CPUs (possible
currently only for 64-bit kernels) the lock itself gets widened
to 64 bits.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258E0D020000780004E3F0@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rather than having two functionally identical implementations
for 32- and 64-bit configurations, use the previously extended
assembly abstractions to fold the rwsem two implementations into
a shared one.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258DF3020000780004E3ED@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rather than having two functionally identical implementations
for 32- and 64-bit configurations, extend the existing assembly
abstractions enough to fold the two rwlock implementations into
a shared one.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E258DD7020000780004E3EA@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Drop thunk_ra macro in favor of an additional argument to the thunk
macro since their bodies are almost identical. Do a whitespace scrubbing
and use CFI-aware macros for full annotation.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306873314-32523-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
As reported in BZ #30352:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352
there's a kernel bug related to reading the last allowed page on x86_64.
The _copy_to_user() and _copy_from_user() functions use the following
check for address limit:
if (buf + size >= limit)
fail();
while it should be more permissive:
if (buf + size > limit)
fail();
That's because the size represents the number of bytes being
read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address.
So the copy function will actually never touch the limit
address even if "buf + size == limit".
Following program fails to use the last page as buffer
due to the wrong limit check:
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <assert.h>
#define PAGE_SIZE (4096)
#define LAST_PAGE ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000))
int main()
{
int fds[2], err;
void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE);
err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
assert(err == 0);
err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
perror("send");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL);
perror("recv");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}
The other place checking the addr limit is the access_ok() function,
which is working properly. There's just a misleading comment
for the __range_not_ok() macro - which this patch fixes as well.
The last page of the user-space address range is a guard page and
Brian Gerst observed that the guard page itself due to an erratum on K8 cpus
(#121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical Boundary Causes Processor
Hang).
However, the test code is using the last valid page before the guard page.
The bug is that the last byte before the guard page can't be read
because of the off-by-one error. The guard page is left in place.
This bug would normally not show up because the last page is
part of the process stack and never accessed via syscalls.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305210630-7136-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support memset() with enhanced rep stosb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memset_c_e function using enhanced rep stosb
overrides the fast string alternative memset_c and the original function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support memmove() by enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memmove() function using enhanced rep movsb
overrides the original function.
The patch doesn't change the backward memmove case to use enhanced rep
movsb.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-9-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support memcpy() with enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
rep movsb, the alternative memcpy() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function and the fast string
function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Support copy_to_user/copy_from_user() by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB.
On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the
original function and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-7-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Intel processors are adding enhancements to REP MOVSB/STOSB and the use of
REP MOVSB/STOSB for optimal memcpy/memset or similar functions is recommended.
Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/
STOSB).
Support clear_page() with rep stosb for processor supporting enhanced REP MOVSB
/STOSB. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
clear_page_c_e function using enhanced REP STOSB overrides the original function
and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Omit the segment prefix in the UP case. GS is not used then
and we will generate segfaults if cmpxchg16b is used otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode
x86, dumpstack: Correct stack dump info when frame pointer is available
x86: Clean up csum-copy_64.S a bit
x86: Fix common misspellings
x86: Fix misspelling and align params
x86: Use PentiumPro-optimized partial_csum() on VIA C7
The many stray whitespaces and other uncleanlinesses made this code
almost unreadable to me - so fix those.
No changes to the code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
* 'x86-mem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug
'simple' would have required specifying current frame address
and return address location manually, but that's obviously not
the case (and not necessary) here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6D1082020000780003454C@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some of the items removed were apparently never used, others
simply didn't get removed with their last user.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BD3A002000078000341F1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cleaning up and shortening code...
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BD35002000078000341DA@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
These weren't part of the initial commit of this code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
LKML-Reference: <4D6BCDFF02000078000341B0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() using the cmpxchg16b and cmpxchg8b
instructions.
-tj: s/percpu_cmpxchg16b/percpu_cmpxchg16b_double/ for consistency and
other cosmetic changes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
memmove_64.c only implements memmove() function which is completely written in
inline assembly code. Therefore it doesn't make sense to keep the assembly code
in .c file.
Currently memmove() doesn't store return value to rax. This may cause issue if
caller uses the return value. The patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295314755-6625-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The code will use a segment prefix instead of doing the lookup and
calculation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
movs instruction will combine data to accelerate moving data,
however we need to concern two cases about it.
1. movs instruction need long lantency to startup,
so here we use general mov instruction to copy data.
2. movs instruction is not good for unaligned case,
even if src offset is 0x10, dest offset is 0x0,
we avoid and handle the case by general mov instruction.
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284664360-6138-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
All read operations after allocation stage can run speculatively,
all write operation will run in program order, and if addresses are
different read may run before older write operation, otherwise wait
until write commit. However CPU don't check each address bit,
so read could fail to recognize different address even they
are in different page.For example if rsi is 0xf004, rdi is 0xe008,
in following operation there will generate big performance latency.
1. movq (%rsi), %rax
2. movq %rax, (%rdi)
3. movq 8(%rsi), %rax
4. movq %rax, 8(%rdi)
If %rsi and rdi were in really the same meory page, there are TRUE
read-after-write dependence because instruction 2 write 0x008 and
instruction 3 read 0x00c, the two address are overlap partially.
Actually there are in different page and no any issues,
but without checking each address bit CPU could think they are
in the same page, and instruction 3 have to wait for instruction 2
to write data into cache from write buffer, then load data from cache,
the cost time read spent is equal to mfence instruction. We may avoid it by
tuning operation sequence as follow.
1. movq 8(%rsi), %rax
2. movq %rax, 8(%rdi)
3. movq (%rsi), %rax
4. movq %rax, (%rdi)
Instruction 3 read 0x004, instruction 2 write address 0x010, no any
dependence. At last on Core2 we gain 1.83x speedup compared with
original instruction sequence. In this patch we first handle small
size(less 20bytes), then jump to different copy mode. Based on our
micro-benchmark small bytes from 1 to 127 bytes, we got up to 2X
improvement, and up to 1.5X improvement for 1024 bytes on Corei7. (We
use our micro-benchmark, and will do further test according to your
requirment)
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
memmove() allow source and destination address to be overlap, but
there is no such limitation for memcpy(). Therefore, explicitly
implement memmove() in both the forwards and backward directions, to
give us the ability to optimize memcpy().
Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner
x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol()
x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.
Use a lowercase name for the end macro, which somehow fixes a binutils 2.16
problem.
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
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The old code didn't work on binutils 2.12 because setting a symbol to
a register apparently requires a fairly recent version.
This commit refactors the code to use the C preprocessor instead, and
in the process makes the whole code a bit easier to understand.
The object code produced is unchanged as expected.
This fixes kernel bugzilla 16506.
Reported-by: Dieter Stussy <kd6lvw+software@kd6lvw.ampr.org>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
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* 'x86-alternatives-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, alternatives: BUG on encountering an invalid CPU feature number
x86, alternatives: Fix one more open-coded 8-bit alternative number
x86, alternatives: Use 16-bit numbers for cpufeature index
We have two functions for doing exactly the same thing -- emulating
cmpxchg8b on 486 and older hardware -- with different calling
conventions, and yet doing the same thing. Drop the C version and use
the assembly version, via alternatives, for both the local and
non-local versions of cmpxchg8b.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Move cmpxchg emulation code from arch/x86/kernel/cpu (which is
otherwise CPU identification) to arch/x86/lib, where other emulation
code lives already.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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