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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-07 00:54:56 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-07 00:54:56 +0400
commitf68e556e23d1a4176b563bcb25d8baf2c5313f91 (patch)
tree4c43c375dd0c608ed506953d80ebfedacca37161 /arch/x86
parent23f347ef63aa36b5a001b6791f657cd0e2a04de3 (diff)
downloadlinux-f68e556e23d1a4176b563bcb25d8baf2c5313f91.tar.xz
Make the "word-at-a-time" helper functions more commonly usable
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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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 */