arm64: lib: Implement optimized string length routines

This patch, based on Linaro's Cortex Strings library, adds
an assembly optimized strlen() and strnlen() functions.

Signed-off-by: Zhichang Yuan <zhichang.yuan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 126 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/strlen.S b/arch/arm64/lib/strlen.S
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 ARM Ltd.
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 Linaro.
+ *
+ * This code is based on glibc cortex strings work originally authored by Linaro
+ * and re-licensed under GPLv2 for the Linux kernel. The original code can
+ * be found @
+ *
+ * http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/cortex-strings/trunk/
+ * files/head:/src/aarch64/
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/assembler.h>
+
+/*
+ * calculate the length of a string
+ *
+ * Parameters:
+ *	x0 - const string pointer
+ * Returns:
+ *	x0 - the return length of specific string
+ */
+
+/* Arguments and results.  */
+srcin		.req	x0
+len		.req	x0
+
+/* Locals and temporaries.  */
+src		.req	x1
+data1		.req	x2
+data2		.req	x3
+data2a		.req	x4
+has_nul1	.req	x5
+has_nul2	.req	x6
+tmp1		.req	x7
+tmp2		.req	x8
+tmp3		.req	x9
+tmp4		.req	x10
+zeroones	.req	x11
+pos		.req	x12
+
+#define REP8_01 0x0101010101010101
+#define REP8_7f 0x7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
+#define REP8_80 0x8080808080808080
+
+ENTRY(strlen)
+	mov	zeroones, #REP8_01
+	bic	src, srcin, #15
+	ands	tmp1, srcin, #15
+	b.ne	.Lmisaligned
+	/*
+	* NUL detection works on the principle that (X - 1) & (~X) & 0x80
+	* (=> (X - 1) & ~(X | 0x7f)) is non-zero iff a byte is zero, and
+	* can be done in parallel across the entire word.
+	*/
+	/*
+	* The inner loop deals with two Dwords at a time. This has a
+	* slightly higher start-up cost, but we should win quite quickly,
+	* especially on cores with a high number of issue slots per
+	* cycle, as we get much better parallelism out of the operations.
+	*/
+.Lloop:
+	ldp	data1, data2, [src], #16
+.Lrealigned:
+	sub	tmp1, data1, zeroones
+	orr	tmp2, data1, #REP8_7f
+	sub	tmp3, data2, zeroones
+	orr	tmp4, data2, #REP8_7f
+	bic	has_nul1, tmp1, tmp2
+	bics	has_nul2, tmp3, tmp4
+	ccmp	has_nul1, #0, #0, eq	/* NZCV = 0000  */
+	b.eq	.Lloop
+
+	sub	len, src, srcin
+	cbz	has_nul1, .Lnul_in_data2
+CPU_BE(	mov	data2, data1 )	/*prepare data to re-calculate the syndrome*/
+	sub	len, len, #8
+	mov	has_nul2, has_nul1
+.Lnul_in_data2:
+	/*
+	* For big-endian, carry propagation (if the final byte in the
+	* string is 0x01) means we cannot use has_nul directly.  The
+	* easiest way to get the correct byte is to byte-swap the data
+	* and calculate the syndrome a second time.
+	*/
+CPU_BE( rev	data2, data2 )
+CPU_BE( sub	tmp1, data2, zeroones )
+CPU_BE( orr	tmp2, data2, #REP8_7f )
+CPU_BE( bic	has_nul2, tmp1, tmp2 )
+
+	sub	len, len, #8
+	rev	has_nul2, has_nul2
+	clz	pos, has_nul2
+	add	len, len, pos, lsr #3		/* Bits to bytes.  */
+	ret
+
+.Lmisaligned:
+	cmp	tmp1, #8
+	neg	tmp1, tmp1
+	ldp	data1, data2, [src], #16
+	lsl	tmp1, tmp1, #3		/* Bytes beyond alignment -> bits.  */
+	mov	tmp2, #~0
+	/* Big-endian.  Early bytes are at MSB.  */
+CPU_BE( lsl	tmp2, tmp2, tmp1 )	/* Shift (tmp1 & 63).  */
+	/* Little-endian.  Early bytes are at LSB.  */
+CPU_LE( lsr	tmp2, tmp2, tmp1 )	/* Shift (tmp1 & 63).  */
+
+	orr	data1, data1, tmp2
+	orr	data2a, data2, tmp2
+	csinv	data1, data1, xzr, le
+	csel	data2, data2, data2a, le
+	b	.Lrealigned
+ENDPROC(strlen)