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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2022-02-07 05:55:15 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2022-02-08 15:58:56 -0800
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x86-64: Optimize bzero
memset with zero as the value to set is by far the majority value (99%+
for Python3 and GCC).

bzero can be slightly more optimized for this case by using a zero-idiom
xor for broadcasting the set value to a register (vector or GPR).

Co-developed-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S b/sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S
index 3f0517bbfc..af26e9cedc 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
   punpcklwd %xmm0, %xmm0; \
   pshufd $0, %xmm0, %xmm0
 
+# define BZERO_ZERO_VEC0() \
+  pxor %xmm0, %xmm0
+
 # define WMEMSET_SET_VEC0_AND_SET_RETURN(d, r) \
   movd d, %xmm0; \
   pshufd $0, %xmm0, %xmm0; \
@@ -53,6 +56,10 @@
 # define MEMSET_SYMBOL(p,s)	memset
 #endif
 
+#ifndef BZERO_SYMBOL
+# define BZERO_SYMBOL(p,s)	__bzero
+#endif
+
 #ifndef WMEMSET_SYMBOL
 # define WMEMSET_CHK_SYMBOL(p,s) p
 # define WMEMSET_SYMBOL(p,s)	__wmemset
@@ -63,6 +70,7 @@
 libc_hidden_builtin_def (memset)
 
 #if IS_IN (libc)
+weak_alias (__bzero, bzero)
 libc_hidden_def (__wmemset)
 weak_alias (__wmemset, wmemset)
 libc_hidden_weak (wmemset)