Re: [PATCH] x86: Add optimized popcnt variants

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/22/2010 06:17 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>  
> +config ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS
> +	string
> +	default "-fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64
> +

[...]

> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> +/* popcnt %rdi, %rax */
> +#define POPCNT ".byte 0xf3\n\t.byte 0x48\n\t.byte 0x0f\n\t.byte 0xb8\n\t.byte 0xc7"
> +#define REG_IN "D"
> +#define REG_OUT "a"
> +#else

Just a note: this still means rdi is clobbered on x86-64, which is
probably fine, but needs to be recorded as such.  Since gcc doesn't
support clobbers for registers used as operands (sigh), you have to
create a dummy output and assign it a "=D" constraint.

I don't know if gcc would handle -fcall-saved-rdi here... and if so, how
reliably.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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