From 36126f8f2ed8168eb13aa0662b9b9585cba100a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:43:17 -0700 Subject: word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic This changes the interfaces in 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 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 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 --- fs/namei.c | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 93ff12b1a1d..c651f02c9fe 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1452,7 +1452,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(full_name_hash); */ static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp) { - unsigned long a, mask, hash, len; + unsigned long a, b, adata, bdata, mask, hash, len; + const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS; hash = a = 0; len = -sizeof(unsigned long); @@ -1460,17 +1461,18 @@ static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp) hash = (hash + a) * 9; len += sizeof(unsigned long); a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name+len); - /* Do we have any NUL or '/' bytes in this word? */ - mask = has_zero(a) | has_zero(a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/')); - } while (!mask); - - /* The mask *below* the first high bit set */ - mask = (mask - 1) & ~mask; - mask >>= 7; - hash += a & mask; + b = a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/'); + } while (!(has_zero(a, &adata, &constants) | has_zero(b, &bdata, &constants))); + + adata = prep_zero_mask(a, adata, &constants); + bdata = prep_zero_mask(b, bdata, &constants); + + mask = create_zero_mask(adata | bdata); + + hash += a & zero_bytemask(mask); *hashp = fold_hash(hash); - return len + count_masked_bytes(mask); + return len + find_zero(mask); } #else -- cgit v1.2.3