I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
No bug.
This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c
As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.
__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.
All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Clean up the IFUNC implementations for powerpc in order to remove
unneeded macro definitions.
Tested on ppc64le with and without --disable-multi-arch flag.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcmp-power4.S: Define the
implementation-specific function name and remove unneeded
macros definition.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcmp-power7.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memmove-power7.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/memcmp.S: Set a default function
name if not defined and pass as parameter to macros accordingly.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memmove.S: Likewise.
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.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00102.html
This is a rather large patch due to formatting and renaming. The
formatting changes were to make it possible to compare power7 and
power4 versions of memcmp. Using different register defines came
about while I was wrestling with the code, trying to find spare
registers at one stage. I found it much simpler if we refer to a reg
by the same name throughout a function, so it's better if short-term
multiple use regs like rTMP are referred to using their register
number. I made the cr field usage changes when attempting to reload
rWORDn regs in the exit path to byte swap before comparing when
little-endian. That proved a bad idea due to the pipelining involved
in the main loop; Offsets to reload the regs were different first
time around the loop.. Anyway, I left the cr field usage changes in
place for consistency.
Aside from these more-or-less cosmetic changes, I fixed a number of
places where an early exit path restores regs unnecessarily, removed
some dead code, and optimised one or two exits.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcmp.S: Add little-endian support.
Formatting. Consistently use rXXX register defines or rN defines.
Use early exit labels that avoid restoring unused non-volatile regs.
Make cr field use more consistent with rWORDn compares. Rename
regs used as shift registers for unaligned loop, using rN defines
for short lifetime/multiple use regs.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/memcmp.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcmp.S: Likewise. Exit with
addi 1,1,64 to pop stack frame. Simplify return value code.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/memcmp.S: Likewise.
