Newlib for aarch64 uses libgloss for the backend. One common libgloss
implementation is the 'rdimon' implementation, which uses the Arm
Semihosting protocol. In order to support a remote host that runs on
Windows we need to know whether a file is to be opened in binary or
text mode. That means that we need to preserve this information via
O_BINARY until we know what the libgloss binding will be.
This patch simply copies the arm implementation from sys/arm/sys and
puts it in machine/aarch64/sys, because we don't have a 'sys' subtree
on aarch64.
This patch fixes an issue in the previous memset loop change. If the
zva size is >= 256 and there are more than 64 bytes left in the
tail, we could enter the loop and thus need to rebias dst by 32 as
well.
Since no known CPUs use this size this can't be tested natively, so I've
tested it on a simulator initialized with a large zva size.
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This fixes an ineffiency in the non-zero memset. Delaying the writeback
until the end of the loop is slightly faster on some cores - this shows
~5% performance gain on Cortex-A53 when doing large non-zero memsets.
Tested against the GLIBC testsuite.
Replace the simple byte-wise compare in the misaligned case with a
dword compare with page boundary checks in place. For simplicity I've
chosen a 4K page boundary so that we don't have to query the actual
page size on the system.
This results in up to 3x improvement in performance in the unaligned
case on falkor and about 2.5x improvement on mustang as measured using
bench-strcmp in glibc.
This improved memcmp provides a fast path for compares up to 16 bytes
and then compares 16 bytes at a time, thus optimizing loads from both
sources. The glibc memcmp microbenchmark retains performance (with an
error of ~1ns) for smaller compare sizes and reduces up to 31% of
execution time for compares up to 4K on the APM Mustang. On Qualcomm
Falkor this improves to almost 48%, i.e. it is almost 2x improvement
for sizes of 2K and above.
The mutually misaligned inputs on aarch64 are compared with a simple
byte copy, which is not very efficient. Enhance the comparison
similar to strcmp by loading a double-word at a time. The peak
performance improvement (i.e. 4k maxlen comparisons) due to this on
the strncmp microbenchmark in glibc is as follows:
falkor: 3.5x (up to 72% time reduction)
cortex-a73: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)
cortex-a53: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)
All mutually misaligned inputs from 16 bytes maxlen onwards show
upwards of 15% improvement and there is no measurable effect on the
performance of aligned/mutually aligned inputs.
- From: Cesar Philippidis <cesar@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:43:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nvptx port
This port adds support for Nvidia GPU's, which are primarily used as
offload accelerators in OpenACC and OpenMP.
Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> This patch appears to have been munged by the mail system, can you
> repost as an attachment please.
Sure, I've attached the patch.
Wilco
Add a simple rawmemchr implementation. Use strlen for rawmemchr(s, '\0') as it is the
fastest way to search for '\0', and use memchr with an infinite size for other cases.
This is 3x faster for large sizes.
ChangeLog:
2016-04-22 Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
* newlib/libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Add rawmemchr.S and
rawmemchr-stub.c.
* newlib/libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* newlib/libc/machine/aarch64/rawmemchr.S (rawmemchr): Add rawmemchr.
* newlib/libc/machine/aarch64/rawmemchr-stub.c (rawmemchr): Likewise.
Newlib defines defaults for internal types via <sys/_types.h> and uses
<machine/_types.h> to let targets define their own type if necessary.
Previously for example
#ifndef __dev_t_defined
typedef short __dev_t;
#endif
However, the __*_t_defined pattern conflicts with the glibc type guard
pattern for user types, e.g. dev_t in this example. Introduce a
__machine_*_t_defined pattern for internal types (defined by
<machine/_types.h>, used by <sys/_types.h>). For example
#ifndef __machine_dev_t_defined
typedef short __dev_t;
#endif
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
This is an optimized memset for AArch64. Memset is split into 4 main
cases: small sets of up to 16 bytes, medium of 16..96 bytes which are
fully unrolled. Large memsets of more than 96 bytes align the
destination and use an unrolled loop processing 64 bytes per
iteration. Memsets of zero of more than 256 use the dc zva
instruction, and there are faster versions for the common ZVA sizes 64
or 128. STP of Q registers is used to reduce codesize without loss of
performance.
This is an optimized memset for AArch64. Memset is split into 4 main
cases: small sets of up to 16 bytes, medium of 16..96 bytes which are
fully unrolled. Large memsets of more than 96 bytes align the
destination and use an unrolled loop processing 64 bytes per
iteration. Memsets of zero of more than 256 use the dc zva
instruction, and there are faster versions for the common ZVA sizes 64
or 128. STP of Q registers is used to reduce codesize without loss of
performance.
This is an optimized memcpy for AArch64. Copies are split into 3 main
cases: small copies of up to 16 bytes, medium copies of 17..96 bytes
which are fully unrolled. Large copies of more than 96 bytes align
the destination and use an unrolled loop processing 64 bytes per
iteration. In order to share code with memmove, small and medium
copies read all data before writing, allowing any kind of overlap. On
a random copy test memcpy is 40.8% faster on A57 and 28.4% on A53.
This is an optimized memmove for AArch64. All copies of up to 96
bytes and all backward copies are done by the new memcpy. The only
remaining case is large forward copies which are done in the same way
as the memcpy loop, but copying from the end rather than the start.
improvements. Adjust to allow building as stpcpy.
* libc/machine/aarch64/stpcpy.S: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/stpcpy-stub.c: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am (lib_a_SOURCES): Build stpcpy.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* libc/machine/aarch64/strrchr-stub.c: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am: Add them to build list.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
2014-07-11 K�vin Petit <kevin.petit@arm.com>
* libc/machine/aarch64/memchr.S: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/memchr-stub.c: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am: Add the new files.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* libc/machine/aarch64/strchrnul-stub.c: New file.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am: Add them to build list.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* libc/machine/aarch64/strchr-stub.c: New file
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.am: Add them to build list.
* libc/machine/aarch64/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
Richard Earnshaw
Jeff Johnston
Eshan dhawan via Newlib
Wilco Dijkstra
Jon Beniston
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Sebastian Pop
Sebastian Huber
Wilco Dijkstra
Marcus Shawcroft
Corinna Vinschen