aarch64: MTE compatible strlen

Introduce an Arm MTE compatible strlen implementation.

The existing implementation assumes that any access to the pages in
which the string resides is safe.  This assumption is not true when
MTE is enabled.  This patch updates the algorithm to ensure that
accesses remain within the bounds of an MTE tag (16-byte chunks) and
improves overall performance on modern cores. On cores with less
efficient Advanced SIMD implementation such as Cortex-A53 it can
be slower.

Benchmarked on Cortex-A72, Cortex-A53, Neoverse N1.

Co-authored-by: Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 183 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/aarch64/strlen.S b/sysdeps/aarch64/strlen.S
index e01fab7c2a..e314fffed6 100644
--- a/sysdeps/aarch64/strlen.S
+++ b/sysdeps/aarch64/strlen.S
@@ -20,205 +20,78 @@
 
 /* Assumptions:
  *
- * ARMv8-a, AArch64, unaligned accesses, min page size 4k.
+ * ARMv8-a, AArch64, Advanced SIMD.
+ * MTE compatible.
  */
 
 #ifndef STRLEN
 # define STRLEN __strlen
 #endif
 
-/* To test the page crossing code path more thoroughly, compile with
-   -DTEST_PAGE_CROSS - this will force all calls through the slower
-   entry path.  This option is not intended for production use.  */
-
-/* Arguments and results.  */
 #define srcin		x0
-#define len		x0
+#define result		x0
 
-/* Locals and temporaries.  */
 #define src		x1
-#define data1		x2
-#define data2		x3
-#define has_nul1	x4
-#define has_nul2	x5
-#define tmp1		x4
-#define tmp2		x5
-#define tmp3		x6
-#define tmp4		x7
-#define zeroones	x8
-
-	/* NUL detection works on the principle that (X - 1) & (~X) & 0x80
-	   (=> (X - 1) & ~(X | 0x7f)) is non-zero iff a byte is zero, and
-	   can be done in parallel across the entire word. A faster check
-	   (X - 1) & 0x80 is zero for non-NUL ASCII characters, but gives
-	   false hits for characters 129..255.	*/
-
-#define REP8_01 0x0101010101010101
-#define REP8_7f 0x7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
-#define REP8_80 0x8080808080808080
-
-#ifdef TEST_PAGE_CROSS
-# define MIN_PAGE_SIZE 16
-#else
-# define MIN_PAGE_SIZE 4096
-#endif
-
-	/* Since strings are short on average, we check the first 16 bytes
-	   of the string for a NUL character.  In order to do an unaligned ldp
-	   safely we have to do a page cross check first.  If there is a NUL
-	   byte we calculate the length from the 2 8-byte words using
-	   conditional select to reduce branch mispredictions (it is unlikely
-	   strlen will be repeatedly called on strings with the same length).
-
-	   If the string is longer than 16 bytes, we align src so don't need
-	   further page cross checks, and process 32 bytes per iteration
-	   using the fast NUL check.  If we encounter non-ASCII characters,
-	   fallback to a second loop using the full NUL check.
-
-	   If the page cross check fails, we read 16 bytes from an aligned
-	   address, remove any characters before the string, and continue
-	   in the main loop using aligned loads.  Since strings crossing a
-	   page in the first 16 bytes are rare (probability of
-	   16/MIN_PAGE_SIZE ~= 0.4%), this case does not need to be optimized.
-
-	   AArch64 systems have a minimum page size of 4k.  We don't bother
-	   checking for larger page sizes - the cost of setting up the correct
-	   page size is just not worth the extra gain from a small reduction in
-	   the cases taking the slow path.  Note that we only care about
-	   whether the first fetch, which may be misaligned, crosses a page
-	   boundary.  */
-
-ENTRY_ALIGN (STRLEN, 6)
+#define	synd		x2
+#define tmp		x3
+#define wtmp		w3
+#define shift		x4
+
+#define data		q0
+#define vdata		v0
+#define vhas_nul	v1
+#define vrepmask	v2
+#define vend		v3
+#define dend		d3
+
+/* Core algorithm:
+
+   For each 16-byte chunk we calculate a 64-bit syndrome value with four bits
+   per byte. For even bytes, bits 0-3 are set if the relevant byte matched the
+   requested character or the byte is NUL. Bits 4-7 must be zero. Bits 4-7 are
+   set likewise for odd bytes so that adjacent bytes can be merged. Since the
+   bits in the syndrome reflect the order in which things occur in the original
+   string, counting trailing zeros identifies exactly which byte matched.  */
+
+ENTRY (STRLEN)
 	DELOUSE (0)
 	DELOUSE (1)
-	and	tmp1, srcin, MIN_PAGE_SIZE - 1
-	mov	zeroones, REP8_01
-	cmp	tmp1, MIN_PAGE_SIZE - 16
-	b.gt	L(page_cross)
-	ldp	data1, data2, [srcin]
-#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
-	/* For big-endian, carry propagation (if the final byte in the
-	   string is 0x01) means we cannot use has_nul1/2 directly.
-	   Since we expect strings to be small and early-exit,
-	   byte-swap the data now so has_null1/2 will be correct.  */
-	rev	data1, data1
-	rev	data2, data2
-#endif
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, data1, REP8_7f
-	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
-	orr	tmp4, data2, REP8_7f
-	bics	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
-	bic	has_nul2, tmp3, tmp4
-	ccmp	has_nul2, 0, 0, eq
-	beq	L(main_loop_entry)
-
-	/* Enter with C = has_nul1 == 0.  */
-	csel	has_nul1, has_nul1, has_nul2, cc
-	mov	len, 8
-	rev	has_nul1, has_nul1
-	clz	tmp1, has_nul1
-	csel	len, xzr, len, cc
-	add	len, len, tmp1, lsr 3
+	bic	src, srcin, 15
+	mov	wtmp, 0xf00f
+	ld1	{vdata.16b}, [src]
+	dup	vrepmask.8h, wtmp
+	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
+	lsl	shift, srcin, 2
+	and	vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vrepmask.16b
+	addp	vend.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b		/* 128->64 */
+	fmov	synd, dend
+	lsr	synd, synd, shift
+	cbz	synd, L(loop)
+
+	rbit	synd, synd
+	clz	result, synd
+	lsr	result, result, 2
 	ret
 
-	/* The inner loop processes 32 bytes per iteration and uses the fast
-	   NUL check.  If we encounter non-ASCII characters, use a second
-	   loop with the accurate NUL check.  */
-	.p2align 4
-L(main_loop_entry):
-	bic	src, srcin, 15
-	sub	src, src, 16
-L(main_loop):
-	ldp	data1, data2, [src, 32]!
-L(page_cross_entry):
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, tmp1, tmp3
-	tst	tmp2, zeroones, lsl 7
-	bne	1f
-	ldp	data1, data2, [src, 16]
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, tmp1, tmp3
-	tst	tmp2, zeroones, lsl 7
-	beq	L(main_loop)
-	add	src, src, 16
-1:
-	/* The fast check failed, so do the slower, accurate NUL check.	 */
-	orr	tmp2, data1, REP8_7f
-	orr	tmp4, data2, REP8_7f
-	bics	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
-	bic	has_nul2, tmp3, tmp4
-	ccmp	has_nul2, 0, 0, eq
-	beq	L(nonascii_loop)
-
-	/* Enter with C = has_nul1 == 0.  */
-L(tail):
-#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
-	/* For big-endian, carry propagation (if the final byte in the
-	   string is 0x01) means we cannot use has_nul1/2 directly.  The
-	   easiest way to get the correct byte is to byte-swap the data
-	   and calculate the syndrome a second time.  */
-	csel	data1, data1, data2, cc
-	rev	data1, data1
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, data1, REP8_7f
-	bic	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
-#else
-	csel	has_nul1, has_nul1, has_nul2, cc
+	.p2align 5
+L(loop):
+	ldr	data, [src, 16]!
+	cmeq	vhas_nul.16b, vdata.16b, 0
+	umaxp	vend.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b
+	fmov	synd, dend
+	cbz	synd, L(loop)
+
+	and	vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vrepmask.16b
+	addp	vend.16b, vhas_nul.16b, vhas_nul.16b		/* 128->64 */
+	sub	result, src, srcin
+	fmov	synd, dend
+#ifndef __AARCH64EB__
+	rbit	synd, synd
 #endif
-	sub	len, src, srcin
-	rev	has_nul1, has_nul1
-	add	tmp2, len, 8
-	clz	tmp1, has_nul1
-	csel	len, len, tmp2, cc
-	add	len, len, tmp1, lsr 3
+	clz	tmp, synd
+	add	result, result, tmp, lsr 2
 	ret
 
-L(nonascii_loop):
-	ldp	data1, data2, [src, 16]!
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, data1, REP8_7f
-	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
-	orr	tmp4, data2, REP8_7f
-	bics	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
-	bic	has_nul2, tmp3, tmp4
-	ccmp	has_nul2, 0, 0, eq
-	bne	L(tail)
-	ldp	data1, data2, [src, 16]!
-	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
-	orr	tmp2, data1, REP8_7f
-	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
-	orr	tmp4, data2, REP8_7f
-	bics	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
-	bic	has_nul2, tmp3, tmp4
-	ccmp	has_nul2, 0, 0, eq
-	beq	L(nonascii_loop)
-	b	L(tail)
-
-	/* Load 16 bytes from [srcin & ~15] and force the bytes that precede
-	   srcin to 0x7f, so we ignore any NUL bytes before the string.
-	   Then continue in the aligned loop.  */
-L(page_cross):
-	bic	src, srcin, 15
-	ldp	data1, data2, [src]
-	lsl	tmp1, srcin, 3
-	mov	tmp4, -1
-#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
-	/* Big-endian.	Early bytes are at MSB.	 */
-	lsr	tmp1, tmp4, tmp1	/* Shift (tmp1 & 63).  */
-#else
-	/* Little-endian.  Early bytes are at LSB.  */
-	lsl	tmp1, tmp4, tmp1	/* Shift (tmp1 & 63).  */
-#endif
-	orr	tmp1, tmp1, REP8_80
-	orn	data1, data1, tmp1
-	orn	tmp2, data2, tmp1
-	tst	srcin, 8
-	csel	data1, data1, tmp4, eq
-	csel	data2, data2, tmp2, eq
-	b	L(page_cross_entry)
 END (STRLEN)
 weak_alias (STRLEN, strlen)
 libc_hidden_builtin_def (strlen)