linux/arch/openrisc/include/asm
Linus Torvalds 36126f8f2e word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic
This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <asm/word-at-a-time.h> 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
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bitops OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
Kbuild word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic 2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
asm-offsets.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
bitops.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
byteorder.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
cache.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
cpuinfo.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
delay.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
dma-mapping.h openrisc: provide dma_map_ops 2012-05-08 11:43:51 +02:00
elf.h openrisc: header file cleanups 2012-05-08 11:43:30 +02:00
fixmap.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
gpio.h gpiolib/arches: Centralise bolierplate asm/gpio.h 2012-05-11 18:00:14 -06:00
io.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
irq.h OpenRISC: IRQ 2011-07-22 18:46:33 +02:00
irqflags.h OpenRISC: IRQ 2011-07-22 18:46:33 +02:00
kvm_para.h kvmclock: Add functions to check if the host has stopped the vm 2012-04-08 12:48:59 +03:00
linkage.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
mmu.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
mmu_context.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
mutex.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
page.h OpenRISC: Remove memory_start/end prototypes 2012-03-06 10:37:21 +01:00
param.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
pgalloc.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
pgtable.h Remove remaining bits of io_remap_page_range() 2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
processor.h fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct() 2012-05-16 15:16:26 -07:00
prom.h irq_domain: Centralize definition of irq_dispose_mapping() 2012-02-26 16:48:06 -07:00
ptrace.h openrisc: header file cleanups 2012-05-08 11:43:30 +02:00
serial.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
sigcontext.h openrisc: don't use pt_regs in struct sigcontext 2011-09-05 14:29:12 +02:00
spinlock.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
spr.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
spr_defs.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
syscall.h openrisc: sanitize use of orig_gpr11 2012-03-06 10:37:00 +01:00
syscalls.h OpenRISC: System calls 2011-07-22 18:46:34 +02:00
thread_info.h OpenRISC: Scheduling/Process management 2011-07-22 18:46:36 +02:00
timex.h OpenRISC: Timekeeping 2011-07-22 18:46:32 +02:00
tlb.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
tlbflush.h OpenRISC: Memory management 2011-07-22 18:46:28 +02:00
uaccess.h openrisc: use generic strncpy_from_user 2012-05-25 08:17:43 -07:00
unaligned.h OpenRISC: Headers 2011-07-22 18:46:39 +02:00
unistd.h OpenRISC: System calls 2011-07-22 18:46:34 +02:00