arch/x86/Kconfig |    1 +
 fs/Kconfig       |    4 ++
 fs/dcache.c      |   23 ++++++++++
 fs/namei.c       |  129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 157 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5bed94e189fa..09675d3e0ac3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config X86
 	select CLKEVT_I8253
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select GENERIC_IOMAP
+	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 
 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
 	def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index d621f02a3f9e..aa195265362f 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 menu "File systems"
 
+# Use unaligned word dcache accesses
+config DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+       bool
+
 if BLOCK
 
 source "fs/ext2/Kconfig"
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index bcbdb33fcc20..ffd47a16d870 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -144,6 +144,28 @@ int proc_nr_dentry(ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer,
 static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
 				const unsigned char *ct, size_t tcount)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+	unsigned long a,b,mask;
+
+	if (unlikely(scount != tcount))
+		return 1;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		a = *(unsigned long *)cs;
+		b = *(unsigned long *)ct;
+		if (tcount < sizeof(unsigned long))
+			break;
+		if (unlikely(a != b))
+			return 1;
+		cs += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		ct += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		tcount -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+		if (!tcount)
+			return 0;
+	}
+	mask = ~(~0ul << tcount*8);
+	return unlikely(!!((a ^ b) & mask));
+#else
 	if (scount != tcount)
 		return 1;
 
@@ -155,6 +177,7 @@ static inline int dentry_cmp(const unsigned char *cs, size_t scount,
 		tcount--;
 	} while (tcount);
 	return 0;
+#endif
 }
 
 static void __d_free(struct rcu_head *head)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e2ba62820a0f..556778cd8b87 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1374,6 +1374,133 @@ static inline int can_lookup(struct inode *inode)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+/*
+ * We can do the critical dentry name comparison and hashing
+ * operations one word at a time, but we are limited to:
+ *
+ * - Architectures with fast unaligned word accesses. We could
+ *   do a "get_unaligned()" if this helps and is sufficiently
+ *   fast.
+ *
+ * - Little-endian machines (so that we can generate the mask
+ *   of low bytes efficiently). Again, we *could* do a byte
+ *   swapping load on big-endian architectures if that is not
+ *   expensive enough to make the optimization worthless.
+ *
+ * - non-CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configurations (so that we
+ *   do not trap on the (extremely unlikely) case of a page
+ *   crossing operation.
+ *
+ * - Furthermore, we need an efficient 64-bit compile for the
+ *   64-bit case in order to generate the "number of bytes in
+ *   the final mask". Again, that could be replaced with a
+ *   efficient population count instruction or similar.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+
+/*
+ * Jan Achrenius on G+: microoptimized version of
+ * the simpler "(mask & ONEBYTES) * ONEBYTES >> 56"
+ * that works for the bytemasks without having to
+ * mask them first.
+ */
+static inline long count_masked_bytes(unsigned long mask)
+{
+	return mask*0x0001020304050608 >> 56;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int fold_hash(unsigned long hash)
+{
+	hash += hash >> (8*sizeof(int));
+	return hash;
+}
+
+#else	/* 32-bit case */
+
+/* Modified Carl Chatfield G+ version for 32-bit */
+static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask)
+{
+	/*
+	 * (a) gives us
+	 *   -1 (0, ff), 0 (ffff) or 1 (ffffff)
+	 * (b) gives us
+	 *   0 for 0, 1 for (ff ffff ffffff)
+	 * (a+b+1) gives us
+	 *   correct 0-3 bytemask count result
+	 */
+	long a = (mask-256) >> 23;
+	long b = mask & 1;
+	return a + b + 1;
+}
+
+#define fold_hash(x) (x)
+
+#endif
+
+unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
+{
+	unsigned long a, mask;
+	unsigned long hash = 0;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		a = *(unsigned long *)name;
+		hash *= 9;
+		if (len < sizeof(unsigned long))
+			break;
+		hash += a;
+		name += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		len -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+		if (!len)
+			goto done;
+	}
+	mask = ~(~0ul << len*8);
+	hash += mask & a;
+done:
+	return fold_hash(hash);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(full_name_hash);
+
+#define ONEBYTES	0x0101010101010101ul
+#define SLASHBYTES	0x2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2ful
+#define HIGHBITS	0x8080808080808080ul
+
+/* Return the high bit set in the first byte that is a zero */
+static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a)
+{
+	return ((a - ONEBYTES) & ~a) & HIGHBITS;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Calculate the length and hash of the path component, and
+ * return the length of the component;
+ */
+static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp)
+{
+	unsigned long a, mask, hash, len;
+
+	hash = a = 0;
+	len = -sizeof(unsigned long);
+	do {
+		hash = (hash + a) * 9;
+		len += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		a = *(unsigned long *)(name+len);
+		/* Do we have any NUL or '/' bytes in this word? */
+		mask = has_zero(a) | has_zero(a ^ SLASHBYTES);
+	} while (!mask);
+
+	/* The mask *below* the first high bit set */
+	mask = (mask - 1) & ~mask;
+	mask >>= 7;
+	hash += a & mask;
+	*hashp = fold_hash(hash);
+
+	return len + count_masked_bytes(mask);
+}
+
+#else
+
 unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
 {
 	unsigned long hash = init_name_hash();
@@ -1402,6 +1529,8 @@ static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp)
 	return len;
 }
 
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Name resolution.
  * This is the basic name resolution function, turning a pathname into