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      word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic · 36126f8f
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> to be a bit more
      complicated, but a lot more generic.
      
      In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on
      both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of
      machine details.  For example, if you can rely on a fast population
      count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your
      optimized <asm/word-at-a-time.h> file with that.
      
      NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is
      not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian.  Why? Because
      on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can
      inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that.
      
      (The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is
      the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version
      of it.  And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular
      header file, that would be lovely)
      
      The <asm/word-at-a-time.h> functions are as follows:
      
       - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm
         uses.
      
       - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it.
         It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to
         an intermediate "data" field it can set.
      
         This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside
         the hot loops.
      
       - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced,
         and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had
         the first zero.  This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows
         the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte"
         question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the
         first one to contain a zero.
      
         If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which
         looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask()
         phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either
         or" case.
      
       - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()"
         (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into
         "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the
         zero byte).
      
         The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary
         for the normal string routines.  But dentry name hashing needs it, so
         if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it.
      
      This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry
      hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces.  This
      gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in
      the previous commit when moving over to the generic version.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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