This patch enables the option to influence hwcaps used by PowerPC.
The environment variable, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-xxx,yyy,-zzz....,
can be used to enable CPU/ARCH feature yyy, disable CPU/ARCH feature xxx
and zzz, where the feature name is case-sensitive and has to match the ones
mentioned in the file{sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c}.
Note that the hwcap tunables only used in the IFUNC selection.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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
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
dl_powerpc_cpu_features also needs to be protected by __GLRO to check
for the _rtld_global_ro realocation before accessing it.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
On POWER8, unaligned memory accesses to cached memory has little impact
on performance as opposed to its ancestors.
It is disabled by default and will only be available when the tunable
glibc.tune.cached_memopt is set to 1.
__memcpy_power8_cached __memcpy_power7
============================================================
max-size=4096: 33325.70 ( 12.65%) 38153.00
max-size=8192: 32878.20 ( 11.17%) 37012.30
max-size=16384: 33782.20 ( 11.61%) 38219.20
max-size=32768: 33296.20 ( 11.30%) 37538.30
max-size=65536: 33765.60 ( 10.53%) 37738.40
* manual/tunables.texi (Hardware Capability Tunables): Document
glibc.tune.cached_memopt.
* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/cpu-features.h: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c [!IS_IN(ldconfig)]: Add
_dl_powerpc_cpu_features.
* sysdeps/powerpc/dl-tunables.list: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/ldsodefs.h: Include cpu-features.h.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/init-arch.h
(INIT_ARCH): Initialize use_aligned_memopt.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h [defined(SHARED &&
IS_IN(rtld))]: Restrict dl_platform_init availability and
initialize CPU features used by tunables.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/Makefile (sysdep_routines):
Add memcpy-power8-cached.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: Add
__memcpy_power8_cached.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch/memcpy-power8-cached.S:
New file.
Reviewed-by: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch add a optimized isnan/isnanf implementation for POWER8
using the new Move From VSR Doubleword instruction to gains some
cycles from FP to GRP register move.
