Re: [PATCH 3/3] riscv: optimized memset

From: Nick Kossifidis
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 07:09:23 EST


On 1/28/24 13:10, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/string.c b/arch/riscv/lib/string.c
index 20677c8067da..022edda68f1c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/lib/string.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/lib/string.c
@@ -144,3 +144,44 @@ void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count) __weak __alias(__memmov
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove);
void *__pi_memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count) __alias(__memmove);
void *__pi___memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count) __alias(__memmove);
+
+void *__memset(void *s, int c, size_t count)
+{
+ union types dest = { .as_u8 = s };
+
+ if (count >= MIN_THRESHOLD) {
+ unsigned long cu = (unsigned long)c;
+
+ /* Compose an ulong with 'c' repeated 4/8 times */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
+ cu *= 0x0101010101010101UL;
+#else
+ cu |= cu << 8;
+ cu |= cu << 16;
+ /* Suppress warning on 32 bit machines */
+ cu |= (cu << 16) << 16;
+#endif

I guess you could check against __SIZEOF_LONG__ here.

+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)) {
+ /*
+ * Fill the buffer one byte at time until
+ * the destination is word aligned.
+ */
+ for (; count && dest.as_uptr & WORD_MASK; count--)
+ *dest.as_u8++ = c;
+ }
+
+ /* Copy using the largest size allowed */
+ for (; count >= BYTES_LONG; count -= BYTES_LONG)
+ *dest.as_ulong++ = cu;
+ }
+
+ /* copy the remainder */
+ while (count--)
+ *dest.as_u8++ = c;
+
+ return s;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memset);

BTW a similar approach could be used for memchr, e.g.:

#if __SIZEOF_LONG__ == 8
#define HAS_ZERO(_x) (((_x) - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~(_x) & 0x8080808080808080ULL)
#else
#define HAS_ZERO(_x) (((_x) - 0x01010101UL) & ~(_x) & 0x80808080UL)
#endif

void *
memchr(const void *src_ptr, int c, size_t len)
{
union const_data src = { .as_bytes = src_ptr };
unsigned char byte = (unsigned char) c;
unsigned long mask = (unsigned long) c;
size_t remaining = len;

/* Nothing to do */
if (!src_ptr || !len)
return NULL;

if (len < 2 * WORD_SIZE)
goto trailing;

mask |= mask << 8;
mask |= mask << 16;
#if __SIZEOF_LONG__ == 8
mask |= mask << 32;
#endif

/* Search by byte up to the src's alignment boundary */
for(; src.as_uptr & WORD_MASK; remaining--, src.as_bytes++) {
if (*src.as_bytes == byte)
return (void*) src.as_bytes;
}

/* Search word by word using the mask */
for(; remaining >= WORD_SIZE; remaining -= WORD_SIZE, src.as_ulong++) {
unsigned long check = *src.as_ulong ^ mask;
if(HAS_ZERO(check))
break;
}

trailing:
for(; remaining > 0; remaining--, src.as_bytes++) {
if (*src.as_bytes == byte)
return (void*) src.as_bytes;
}

return NULL;
}

Regards,
Nick