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Jeremy Fitzhardinge reported this compiler bug:
Suggestion from Linus: add "r" to the input constraint of the
set_bit()/clear_bit()'s constant 'nr' branch:
Blows up on "gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)":
CC init/main.o
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function `start_kernel':
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix integration bug introduced by "x86: bitops take an unsigned long *"
which turned "(void *) + x" into "(long *) + x".
small cleanups to make it more apparent which value get propagated where.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> And yes, the "lock andl" should be noticeably faster than the xchgl.
I dunno. Here's a untested (!!) patch that turns constant-bit
set/clear_bit ops into byte mask ops (lock orb/andb).
It's not exactly pretty. The reason for using the byte versions is that a
locked op is serialized in the memory pipeline anyway, so there are no
forwarding issues (that could slow down things when we access things with
different sizes), and the byte ops are a lot smaller than 32-bit and
particularly 64-bit ops (big constants, and the 64-bit ops need the REX
prefix byte too).
[ Side note: I wonder if we should turn the "test_bit()" C version into a
"char *" version too.. It could actually help with alias analysis, since
char pointers can alias anything. So it might be the RightThing(tm) to
do for multiple reasons. I dunno. It's a separate issue. ]
It does actually shrink the kernel image a bit (a couple of hundred bytes
on the text segment for my everything-compiled-in image), and while it's
totally untested the (admittedly few) code generation points I looked at
seemed sane. And "lock orb" should be noticeably faster than "lock bts".
If somebody wants to play with it, go wild. I didn't do "change_bit()",
because nobody sane uses that thing anyway. I guarantee nothing. And if it
breaks, nobody saw me do anything. You can't prove this email wasn't sent
by somebody who is good at forging smtp.
This does require a gcc that is recent enough for "__builtin_constant_p()"
to work in an inline function, but I suspect our kernel requirements are
already higher than that. And if you do have an old gcc that is supported,
the worst that would happen is that the optimization doesn't trigger.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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All (or most) other architectures do this. So should x86. Fix.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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709f744 causes my computer to freeze during the start up of X and my
login manger (GDM). It gets to the point where it has shown the default
X mouse cursor logo (a big X / cross) and does not respond to anything
from that point on.
This worked fine before 709f744, and it works fine with 709f744
reverted on top of Linus' current tree (f74d505). The revert had
conflicts, as far as I can tell due to white space changes. The diff I
ended up with is below.
It is 100% reproducible.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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include/asm-x86/bitops_32.h and include/asm-x86/bitops_64.h are now
almost identical. The 64-bit version sets ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
and has an extra inline function set_bit_string. The define currently
has no influence on the generated code, but it can be argued that
setting it on i386 is the right thing to do anyhow. The addition
of the extra inline function on i386 does not hurt either.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some of those can be written in such a way that the same
inline assembly can be used to generate both 32 bit and
64 bit code.
For ffs and fls, x86_64 unconditionally used the cmov
instruction and i386 unconditionally used a conditional
branch over a mov instruction. In the current patch I
chose to select the version based on the availability
of the cmov instruction instead. A small detail here is
that x86_64 did not previously set CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y.
Improved comments for ffs, ffz, fls and variations.
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This moves an optimization for searching constant-sized small
bitmaps form x86_64-specific to generic code.
On an i386 defconfig (the x86#testing one), the size of vmlinux hardly
changes with this applied. I have observed only four places where this
optimization avoids a call into find_next_bit:
In the functions return_unused_surplus_pages, alloc_fresh_huge_page,
and adjust_pool_surplus, this patch avoids a call for a 1-bit bitmap.
In __next_cpu a call is avoided for a 32-bit bitmap. That's it.
On x86_64, 52 locations are optimized with a minimal increase in
code size:
Current #testing defconfig:
146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
text data bss dec hex filename
5392637 846592 724424 6963653 6a41c5 vmlinux
After removing the x86_64 specific optimization for find_next_*bit:
94 x bsf, 79 x find_next_*bit
text data bss dec hex filename
5392358 846592 724424 6963374 6a40ae vmlinux
After this patch (making the optimization generic):
146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
text data bss dec hex filename
5392396 846592 724424 6963412 6a40d4 vmlinux
[ tglx@linutronix.de: build fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The versions with inline assembly are in fact slower on the machines I
tested them on (in userspace) (Athlon XP 2800+, p4-like Xeon 2.8GHz, AMD
Opteron 270). The i386-version needed a fix similar to 06024f21 to avoid
crashing the benchmark.
Benchmark using: gcc -fomit-frame-pointer -Os. For each bitmap size
1...512, for each possible bitmap with one bit set, for each possible
offset: find the position of the first bit starting at offset. If you
follow ;). Times include setup of the bitmap and checking of the
results.
Athlon Xeon Opteron 32/64bit
x86-specific: 0m3.692s 0m2.820s 0m3.196s / 0m2.480s
generic: 0m2.622s 0m1.662s 0m2.100s / 0m1.572s
If the bitmap size is not a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG, and no set
(cleared) bit is found, find_next_bit (find_next_zero_bit) returns a
value outside of the range [0, size]. The generic version always returns
exactly size. The generic version also uses unsigned long everywhere,
while the x86 versions use a mishmash of int, unsigned (int), long and
unsigned long.
Using the generic version does give a slightly bigger kernel, though.
defconfig: text data bss dec hex filename
x86-specific: 4738555 481232 626688 5846475 5935cb vmlinux (32 bit)
generic: 4738621 481232 626688 5846541 59360d vmlinux (32 bit)
x86-specific: 5392395 846568 724424 6963387 6a40bb vmlinux (64 bit)
generic: 5392458 846568 724424 6963450 6a40fa vmlinux (64 bit)
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This (simplified) piece of code didn't behave as expected due to
incorrect constraints in some of the bitops functions, when
X86_FEATURE_xxx is referring to other than the first long:
int test(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_xxx))
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_xxx);
return cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_xxx);
}
I'd really like understand, though, what the policy of (not) having a
"memory" clobber in these operations is - currently, this appears to
be totally inconsistent. Also, many comments of the non-atomic
functions say those may also be re-ordered - this contradicts the use
of "asm volatile" in there, which again I'd like to understand.
As much as all of these, using 'int' for the 'nr' parameter and
'void *' for the 'addr' one is in conflict with
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt, especially because bt{,c,r,s} indeed
take the bit index as signed (which hence would really need special
precaution) and access the full 32 bits (if 'unsigned long' was used
properly here, 64 bits for x86-64) pointed at, so invalid uses like
referencing a 'char' array cannot currently be caught.
Finally, the code with and without this patch relies heavily on the
-fno-strict-aliasing compiler switch and I'm not certain this really
is a good idea.
In the light of all of this I'm sending this as RFC, as fixing the
above might warrant a much bigger patch...
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch changes the bitwise operations in bitops.h to get
a void pointers as a parameter. Before this patch, a lot of warnings
can be seen. They're gone after it.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This unifies the set/clear/test bit functions of asm/bitops.h.
I have not attempted to merge the bit-finding functions, since they
rely on the machine word size and can't be easily restructured to work
generically without a lot of #ifdefs. In particular, the 64-bit code
can assume the presence of conditional move instructions, whereas
32-bit needs to be more careful.
The inline assembly for the bit operations has been changed to remove
explicit sizing hints on the instructions, so the assembler will pick
the appropriate instruction forms depending on the architecture and
the context.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the
header install make rules
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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