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authorAndrew Senkevich <andrew.senkevich@intel.com>2015-06-09 14:25:49 +0300
committerAndrew Senkevich <andrew.senkevich@intel.com>2015-06-09 14:25:49 +0300
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Start of series of patches with x86_64 vector math functions.
Here is implementation of cos containing SSE, AVX, AVX2 and AVX512
versions according to Vector ABI which had been discussed in
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/x86-64-abi/LmppCfN1rZ4>.

Vector math library build and ABI testing enabled by default for x86_64.

    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/Makefile: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/Versions: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos_data.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos_data.h: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos2_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos4_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos4_core_avx.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_cos8_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/svml_d_wrapper_impl.h: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos2_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos2_core_sse4.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos4_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos4_core_avx2.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos8_core.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/svml_d_cos8_core_avx512.S: New file.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/Makefile (libmvec-sysdep_routines): Added
    build of SSE, AVX2 and AVX512 IFUNC versions.
    * sysdeps/x86/fpu/bits/math-vector.h: Added SIMD declaration for cos.
    * math/bits/mathcalls.h: Added cos declaration with __MATHCALL_VEC.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac: Options for libmvec build.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Regenerated.
    * sysdeps/x86_64/sysdep.h (cfi_offset_rel_rsp): New macro.
    * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/libmvec.abilist: New file.
    * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Document
    --disable-mathvec.
    * INSTALL: Regenerated.
    * NEWS: Mention addition of libmvec and x86_64 vector cos.
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@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Version 2.22
 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
   and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
   condition in some applications.
+
+* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
+  implementations: cos.
+  The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
+  enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
+  The library is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to specify -lmvec
+  explicitly).
+  Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
 
 Version 2.21