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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-26 10:43:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-26 11:33:40 -0700
commit36126f8f2ed8168eb13aa0662b9b9585cba100a9 (patch)
tree543f6b6ab60dd3e47af931142aa84f0ba7749d43 /fs
parent4ae73f2d53255c388d50bf83c1681112a6f9cba1 (diff)
word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic
This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> to be a bit more complicated, but a lot more generic. In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of machine details. For example, if you can rely on a fast population count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your optimized <asm/word-at-a-time.h> file with that. NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian. Why? Because on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that. (The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version of it. And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular header file, that would be lovely) The <asm/word-at-a-time.h> functions are as follows: - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm uses. - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it. It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to an intermediate "data" field it can set. This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside the hot loops. - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced, and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had the first zero. This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte" question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the first one to contain a zero. If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask() phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either or" case. - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()" (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the zero byte). The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary for the normal string routines. But dentry name hashing needs it, so if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it. This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces. This gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in the previous commit when moving over to the generic version. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 93ff12b1a1de..c651f02c9fec 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1452,7 +1452,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(full_name_hash);
*/
static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp)
{
- unsigned long a, mask, hash, len;
+ unsigned long a, b, adata, bdata, mask, hash, len;
+ const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS;
hash = a = 0;
len = -sizeof(unsigned long);
@@ -1460,17 +1461,18 @@ static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp)
hash = (hash + a) * 9;
len += sizeof(unsigned long);
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name+len);
- /* Do we have any NUL or '/' bytes in this word? */
- mask = has_zero(a) | has_zero(a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/'));
- } while (!mask);
-
- /* The mask *below* the first high bit set */
- mask = (mask - 1) & ~mask;
- mask >>= 7;
- hash += a & mask;
+ b = a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/');
+ } while (!(has_zero(a, &adata, &constants) | has_zero(b, &bdata, &constants)));
+
+ adata = prep_zero_mask(a, adata, &constants);
+ bdata = prep_zero_mask(b, bdata, &constants);
+
+ mask = create_zero_mask(adata | bdata);
+
+ hash += a & zero_bytemask(mask);
*hashp = fold_hash(hash);
- return len + count_masked_bytes(mask);
+ return len + find_zero(mask);
}
#else