linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

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Message-ID: <20100223175457.GA2401@aftab>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:54:57 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:34:04AM -0800

> On 02/23/2010 07:58 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> >Hmm, we cannot do that with the current design since __arch_hweight64
> >is being inlined into every callsite and AFAICT we would have to build
> >every callsite with "-fcall-saved-rdi" which is clearly too much. The
> >explicit "=D" dummy constraint is straightforward, instead.
> >
> 
> Uh... the -fcall-saved-rdi would go with all the other ones.
> Assuming it can actually work and that gcc doesn't choke on an
> inbound argument being saved.

Right, doh. Ok, just added it and it builds fine with a gcc (Gentoo
4.4.1 p1.0) 4.4.1. If you have suspicion that some older gcc versions
might choke on it, I could leave the "=D" dummy constraint in?

BTW, the current version screams

/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h: In function ‘__arch_hweight64’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h:47: warning: unused variable ‘dummy’

on x86-32. I'll send a fixed version in a second.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

-
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating Systems Research Center
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