linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] x86/asm/bitops: Replace __fls() by its generic builtin implementation

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:06:10 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] x86/asm/bitops: Replace __fls() by its generic
 builtin implementation

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 1:51 AM Vincent Mailhol
<mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Below snippet:
>
>   #include <linux/bitops.h>
>
>   unsigned int foo(unsigned long word)
>   {
>         return __fls(word);
>   }
>
> produces this on GCC 12.1.0:
>
>   0000000000000000 <foo>:
>      0: f3 0f 1e fa             endbr64
>      4: e8 00 00 00 00          call   9 <foo+0x9>
>      9: 53                      push   %rbx
>      a: 48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
>      d: e8 00 00 00 00          call   12 <foo+0x12>
>     12: 48 0f bd c3             bsr    %rbx,%rax
>     16: 5b                      pop    %rbx
>     17: 31 ff                   xor    %edi,%edi
>     19: e9 00 00 00 00          jmp    1e <foo+0x1e>
>
> and that on clang 14.0.6:
>
>   0000000000000000 <foo>:
>      0: f3 0f 1e fa             endbr64
>      4: e8 00 00 00 00          call   9 <foo+0x9>
>      9: 53                      push   %rbx
>      a: 50                      push   %rax
>      b: 48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
>      e: e8 00 00 00 00          call   13 <foo+0x13>
>     13: 48 89 1c 24             mov    %rbx,(%rsp)
>     17: 48 0f bd 04 24          bsr    (%rsp),%rax
>     1c: 48 83 c4 08             add    $0x8,%rsp
>     20: 5b                      pop    %rbx
>     21: c3                      ret
>
> The implementation from <asm-generic/bitops/builtin-__fls.h> [1]
> produces the exact same code on GCC and below code on clang:
>
>   0000000000000000 <foo>:
>      0: f3 0f 1e fa             endbr64
>      4: e8 00 00 00 00          call   9 <foo+0x9>
>      9: 53                      push   %rbx
>      a: 48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
>      d: e8 00 00 00 00          call   12 <foo+0x12>
>     12: 48 0f bd c3             bsr    %rbx,%rax
>     16: 5b                      pop    %rbx
>     17: c3                      ret
>
> The builtin implementation is better for two reasons:
>
>   1/ it saves two instructions on clang (a push and a stack pointer
>      decrement) because of a useless tentative to save rax.
>
>   2/ when used on constant expressions, the compiler is only able to
>      fold the builtin version (c.f. [2]).
>
> For those two reasons, replace the assembly implementation by its
> builtin counterpart.
>
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/include/asm-generic/bitops/builtin-__fls.h
>
> [2] commit 146034fed6ee ("x86/asm/bitops: Use __builtin_ffs() to evaluate constant expressions")
>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> CC: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> CC: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>

LGTM; thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h | 14 +-------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
> index 2edf68475fec..a31453d7686d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
> @@ -285,19 +285,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long variable_ffz(unsigned long word)
>          (unsigned long)__builtin_ctzl(~word) : \
>          variable_ffz(word))
>
> -/*
> - * __fls: find last set bit in word
> - * @word: The word to search
> - *
> - * Undefined if no set bit exists, so code should check against 0 first.
> - */
> -static __always_inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word)
> -{
> -       asm("bsr %1,%0"
> -           : "=r" (word)
> -           : "rm" (word));
> -       return word;
> -}
> +#include <asm-generic/bitops/builtin-__fls.h>
>
>  #undef ADDR
>
> --
> 2.37.4
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers