So that we can get the perf bench exec stack fixes and then apply the
remaining fix for the files added after what is in perf/urgent.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
By adding following objects:
bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack.
The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the
GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary
should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX.
Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all
flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision.
Problem introduced in:
$ git describe ea7872b
v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b
Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570
Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
[ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Intended to be able to support the current selection of the preferred
memcpy() implementation, this patch adds the ability to also measure the
two alternative implementations, again by way of using some
pre-processsor replacement.
While on my Westmere system this proves that the movsb based variant is
worse than the movsq based one (since the ERMS feature isn't there), it
also shows that here for the default as well as small sizes the unrolled
variant outperforms the movsq one.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F16D728020000780006D732@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S implements not only __memcpy, but also
memcpy, without further precautions this function will get chose by the
static linker for resolving all references, and hence the "default"
measurement didn't really measure anything else than the
"x86-64-unrolled" one.
Fix this by renaming (through the pre-processor) the conflicting symbol.
On my Westmere system, the glibc variant turns out to require about 4%
less instructions, but 15% more cycles for the default 1Mb block size
measured.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F16D6FD020000780006D72F@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch ports arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S to perf bench mem
memcpy for benchmarking memcpy() in userland with tricky and
dirty way.
util/include/asm/cpufeature.h, util/include/asm/dwarf2.h, and
util/include/linux/linkage.h are mostly dummy files with small
wrappers, so that we are able to include memcpy_64.S
unmodified.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: h.mitake@gmail.com
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
LKML-Reference: <1290668693-27068-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo