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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-02-26 05:36:59 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2022-01-27 11:33:05 -0800
commit3bb13e91495c763c1ce7759e3b0d2cb32d4095b6 (patch)
treee5310296b94b9258bb9242867c7a96cc2161815a
parent40eebb02ccbc2d621e796795d5994fe7483b679f (diff)
downloadglibc-3bb13e91495c763c1ce7759e3b0d2cb32d4095b6.tar.gz
x86: Set Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER and add Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP
1. Set Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER if RTM is usable to avoid RTM abort triggered by VZEROUPPER inside a transactionally executing RTM region. 2. Since to compare 2 32-byte strings, 256-bit EVEX strcmp requires 2 loads, 3 VPCMPs and 2 KORDs while AVX2 strcmp requires 1 load, 2 VPCMPEQs, 1 VPMINU and 1 VPMOVMSKB, AVX2 strcmp is faster than EVEX strcmp. Add Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP to prefer AVX2 strcmp family functions. (cherry picked from commit 1da50d4bda07f04135dca39f40e79fc9eabed1f8)
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c20
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h2
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c2
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
index 4c24ba7c31..eb554b6d14 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
@@ -546,8 +546,24 @@ init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER]
|= bit_arch_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER;
else
- cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512]
- |= bit_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512;
+ {
+ cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512]
+ |= bit_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512;
+
+ /* Avoid RTM abort triggered by VZEROUPPER inside a
+ transactionally executing RTM region. */
+ if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P (cpu_features, RTM))
+ cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER]
+ |= bit_arch_Prefer_No_VZEROUPPER;
+
+ /* Since to compare 2 32-byte strings, 256-bit EVEX strcmp
+ requires 2 loads, 3 VPCMPs and 2 KORDs while AVX2 strcmp
+ requires 1 load, 2 VPCMPEQs, 1 VPMINU and 1 VPMOVMSKB,
+ AVX2 strcmp is faster than EVEX strcmp. */
+ if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P (cpu_features, AVX2))
+ cpu_features->preferred[index_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP]
+ |= bit_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP;
+ }
}
/* This spells out "AuthenticAMD" or "HygonGenuine". */
else if ((ebx == 0x68747541 && ecx == 0x444d4163 && edx == 0x69746e65)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h
index a0b9b9177c..72ea74d083 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h
@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ extern const struct cpu_features *__get_cpu_features (void)
#define bit_arch_Prefer_FSRM (1u << 13)
#define bit_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512 (1u << 14)
#define bit_arch_MathVec_Prefer_No_AVX512 (1u << 15)
+#define bit_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP (1u << 16)
#define index_arch_Fast_Rep_String PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
#define index_arch_Fast_Copy_Backward PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
@@ -821,6 +822,7 @@ extern const struct cpu_features *__get_cpu_features (void)
#define index_arch_Prefer_No_AVX512 PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
#define index_arch_MathVec_Prefer_No_AVX512 PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
#define index_arch_Prefer_FSRM PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
+#define index_arch_Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_1
/* XCR0 Feature flags. */
#define bit_XMM_state (1u << 1)
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
index 588bbf9448..b251a91af3 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps) (tunable_val_t *valp)
CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_PREFERRED_BOTH (n, cpu_features,
Fast_Copy_Backward,
disable, 18);
+ CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_PREFERRED_NEED_BOTH
+ (n, cpu_features, Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP, AVX2, disable, 18);
}
break;
case 19: