powerpc: Optimized st{r,p}cpy for POWER8/PPC64

This patch adds an optimized POWER8 strcpy using unaligned accesses.
For strings up to 16 bytes the implementation first calculate the
string size, like strlen, and issues a memcpy.  For larger strings,
source is first aligned to 16 bytes and then tested over a loop that
reads 16 bytes am combine the cmpb results for speedup.  Special case is
added for page cross reads.

It shows 30%-60% improvement over the optimized POWER7 one that uses
only aligned accesses.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/stpcpy.S b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/stpcpy.S
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index 0000000000..bf72065114
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+/* Optimized stpcpy implementation for PowerPC64/POWER8.
+   Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library 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
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#define USE_AS_STPCPY
+#include <sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strcpy.S>
+
+weak_alias (__stpcpy, stpcpy)
+libc_hidden_def (__stpcpy)
+libc_hidden_builtin_def (stpcpy)