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Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:47:46 -0600
From:   Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, alexanderduyck@...com,
        kbuild-all@...ts.01.org, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, lkp@...el.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/core 1/1] arch/x86/um/../lib/csum-partial_64.c:98:12:
 error: implicit declaration of function 'load_unaligned_zeropad'

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:32 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Although I see slightly worse performance with aligned `buff`  in
> > the branch-free approach. Imagine if non-aligned `buff` is that
> > uncommon might be better to speculate past the work of `ror`.
>
> Yes, no clear win here removing the conditional (same cost really),
> although using a ror32() is removing the from32to16() helper and get
> rid of one folding.
>
> I will formally submit this change, thanks !

Great :)

Can you put me on the cc list? I have a patch for the function that I'll post
once yours gets through.

>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c b/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c
> index 1eb8f2d11f7c785be624eba315fe9ca7989fd56d..cf4bd3ef66e56c681b3435d43011ece78438376d
> 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.c
> @@ -11,16 +11,6 @@
>  #include <asm/checksum.h>
>  #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
>
> -static inline unsigned short from32to16(unsigned a)
> -{
> -       unsigned short b = a >> 16;
> -       asm("addw %w2,%w0\n\t"
> -           "adcw $0,%w0\n"
> -           : "=r" (b)
> -           : "0" (b), "r" (a));
> -       return b;
> -}
> -
>  /*
>   * Do a checksum on an arbitrary memory area.
>   * Returns a 32bit checksum.
> @@ -41,6 +31,7 @@ __wsum csum_partial(const void *buff, int len, __wsum sum)
>         if (unlikely(odd)) {
>                 if (unlikely(len == 0))
>                         return sum;
> +               temp64 = ror32((__force u32)sum, 8);
>                 temp64 += (*(unsigned char *)buff << 8);
>                 len--;
>                 buff++;
> @@ -129,10 +120,8 @@ __wsum csum_partial(const void *buff, int len, __wsum sum)
>  #endif
>         }
>         result = add32_with_carry(temp64 >> 32, temp64 & 0xffffffff);
> -       if (unlikely(odd)) {
> -               result = from32to16(result);
> -               result = ((result >> 8) & 0xff) | ((result & 0xff) << 8);
> -       }
> +       if (unlikely(odd))
> +               result = ror32(result, 8);
>         return (__force __wsum)result;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial);