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Make the "word-at-a-time" helper functions more commonly usable
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I have a new optimized x86 "strncpy_from_user()" that will use these
same helper functions for all the same reasons the name lookup code uses
them.  This is preparation for that.

This moves them into an architecture-specific header file.  It's
architecture-specific for two reasons:

 - some of the functions are likely to want architecture-specific
   implementations.  Even if the current code happens to be "generic" in
   the sense that it should work on any little-endian machine, it's
   likely that the "multiply by a big constant and shift" implementation
   is less than optimal for an architecture that has a guaranteed fast
   bit count instruction, for example.

 - I expect that if architectures like sparc want to start playing
   around with this, we'll need to abstract out a few more details (in
   particular the actual unaligned accesses).  So we're likely to have
   more architecture-specific stuff if non-x86 architectures start using
   this.

   (and if it turns out that non-x86 architectures don't start using
   this, then having it in an architecture-specific header is still the
   right thing to do, of course)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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46 changes: 46 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
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#ifndef _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H
#define _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H

/*
* This is largely generic for little-endian machines, but the
* optimal byte mask counting is probably going to be something
* that is architecture-specific. If you have a reliably fast
* bit count instruction, that might be better than the multiply
* and shift, for example.
*/

#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*0x0001020304050608ul >> 56;
}

#else /* 32-bit case */

/* Carl Chatfield / Jan Achrenius G+ version for 32-bit */
static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask)
{
/* (000000 0000ff 00ffff ffffff) -> ( 1 1 2 3 ) */
long a = (0x0ff0001+mask) >> 23;
/* Fix the 1 for 00 case */
return a & mask;
}

#endif

#define REPEAT_BYTE(x) ((~0ul / 0xff) * (x))

/* Return the high bit set in the first byte that is a zero */
static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a)
{
return ((a - REPEAT_BYTE(0x01)) & ~a) & REPEAT_BYTE(0x80);
}

#endif /* _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H */
35 changes: 3 additions & 32 deletions fs/namei.c
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Expand Up @@ -1407,18 +1407,9 @@ static inline int can_lookup(struct inode *inode)
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
#include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>

/*
* 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*0x0001020304050608ul >> 56;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT

static inline unsigned int fold_hash(unsigned long hash)
{
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#else /* 32-bit case */

/* Carl Chatfield / Jan Achrenius G+ version for 32-bit */
static inline long count_masked_bytes(long mask)
{
/* (000000 0000ff 00ffff ffffff) -> ( 1 1 2 3 ) */
long a = (0x0ff0001+mask) >> 23;
/* Fix the 1 for 00 case */
return a & mask;
}

#define fold_hash(x) (x)

#endif
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}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(full_name_hash);

#define REPEAT_BYTE(x) ((~0ul / 0xff) * (x))
#define ONEBYTES REPEAT_BYTE(0x01)
#define SLASHBYTES REPEAT_BYTE('/')
#define HIGHBITS REPEAT_BYTE(0x80)

/* 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;
Expand All @@ -1490,7 +1461,7 @@ static inline unsigned long hash_name(const char *name, unsigned int *hashp)
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);
mask = has_zero(a) | has_zero(a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/'));
} while (!mask);

/* The mask *below* the first high bit set */
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