Replace the simple byte-wise compare in the misaligned case with a
dword compare with page boundary checks in place. For simplicity I've
chosen a 4K page boundary so that we don't have to query the actual
page size on the system.
This results in up to 3x improvement in performance in the unaligned
case on falkor and about 2.5x improvement on mustang as measured using
bench-strcmp in glibc.
This improved memcmp provides a fast path for compares up to 16 bytes
and then compares 16 bytes at a time, thus optimizing loads from both
sources. The glibc memcmp microbenchmark retains performance (with an
error of ~1ns) for smaller compare sizes and reduces up to 31% of
execution time for compares up to 4K on the APM Mustang. On Qualcomm
Falkor this improves to almost 48%, i.e. it is almost 2x improvement
for sizes of 2K and above.
The mutually misaligned inputs on aarch64 are compared with a simple
byte copy, which is not very efficient. Enhance the comparison
similar to strcmp by loading a double-word at a time. The peak
performance improvement (i.e. 4k maxlen comparisons) due to this on
the strncmp microbenchmark in glibc is as follows:
falkor: 3.5x (up to 72% time reduction)
cortex-a73: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)
cortex-a53: 3.5x (up to 71% time reduction)
All mutually misaligned inputs from 16 bytes maxlen onwards show
upwards of 15% improvement and there is no measurable effect on the
performance of aligned/mutually aligned inputs.
This fix is for some platforms which do not have writev().
*perror.c: Use _write_r() instead of writev().
*psignal.c: Use write() insetad of writev().
Revise commit: d4f4e7ae1b
The new implementations are provided under !__OBSOLETE_MATH, it uses
ISO C99 code. With default settings the worst case error in nearest
rounding mode is 0.519 ULP with inlined fma and fma contraction. It uses
a 2 KB lookup table, on aarch64 .text+.rodata size of libm.a is increased
by 1703 bytes. The w_log.c wrapper is disabled since error handling is
inline in the new code.
New __HAVE_FAST_FMA and __HAVE_FAST_FMA_DEFAULT feature macros were
added to enable selecting between the code path that uses fma and the
one that does not. Targets supposed to set __HAVE_FAST_FMA_DEFAULT
if they have single instruction fma and the compiler can actually
inline it (gcc has __FP_FAST_FMA macro but that does not guarantee
inlining with -fno-builtin-fma).
Improvements on Cortex-A72:
latency: 1.9x
thruput: 2.3x
* (mkcategories): Fix a bug that outputs incorrect Unicode category
table for code point ranges.
* (categories.t): Rebuild it using the bug-fixed mkcategories.
This fixes the problem reported in the following post.
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-06/msg00248.html
Previously, "test 1 2 3 -a -b -c" was permuted to "test -a -b -c 1 2 3",
but "test 1 2 3 -abc" was left as "test 1 2 3 -abc".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kindler <mail+newlib@t-kindler.de>
- when calculating a correction to align next brk to page boundary,
ensure that the correction is less than a page size
- if allocating the correction fails, ensure that the top size is
set to brk + sbrk_size (minus any front alignment made)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
When converting number of days since epoch (32-bits) to seconds,
calculations using 32-bit `long` overflow for years above 2038. Solve
this by casting number of days to `time_t` just before final
multiplication.
Signed-off-by: Freddie Chopin <freddie.chopin@gmail.com>
- From: Cesar Philippidis <cesar@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:43:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nvptx port
This port adds support for Nvidia GPU's, which are primarily used as
offload accelerators in OpenACC and OpenMP.
The gdtoa implementation uses the type long, defined as Long, in lots
of code. For historical reason newlib defines Long as int32_t instead.
This works fine, as long as floating point exceptions are not enabled.
The conversion to 32 bit int can lead to a FE_INVALID situation.
Example:
const char *str = "121645100408832000.0";
char *ptr;
feenableexcept (FE_INVALID);
strtod (str, &ptr);
This leads to the following situation in strtod
double aadj;
Long L;
[...]
L = (Long)aadj;
For instance, on x86_64 the code here is
cvttsd2si %xmm0,%eax
At this point, aadj is 2529648000.0 in our example. The conversion to
32 bit %eax results in a negative int value, thus the conversion is
invalid. With feenableexcept (FE_INVALID), a SIGFPE is raised.
Fix this by always using 64 bit ints here if double is not a 32 bit type
to avoid this type of FP exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Classical function call recursion wastes a lot of stack space.
Each recursion level requires a full stack frame comprising all
local variables and additional space as dictated by the
processor calling convention.
This implementation instead stores the variables that are unique
for each recursion level in a parameter stack array, and uses
iteration to emulate recursion. Function call recursion is not
used until the array is full.
To ensure the stack consumption isn't worsened by this design, the
size of the parameter stack array is chosen to be similar to the
stack frame excluding the array. Each function call recursion level
can handle 8 iterative recursion levels.
Stack consumption will worsen when sorting tiny arrays that do not
need recursion (of 6 elements or less). It will be about equal for
up to 15 elements, and be an improvement for larger arrays. The best
case improvement is a stack size reduction down to about one quarter
of the stack consumption before the change.
A design where the parameter stack array is large enough for the
worst case recursion level was rejected because it would worsen
the stack consumption when sorting arrays smaller than about 1500
elements. The worst case is 31 levels on a 32-bit system.
A design with a dynamic parameter array size was rejected because
of limitations in some compilers.
The qsort algorithm splits the input array in three parts. The
left and right parts may need further sorting. One of them is
sorted by recursion, the other by iteration. This update ensures
that it is the smaller part that is chosen for recursion.
By choosing the smaller part, each recursion level will handle
less than half the array of the previous recursion level. Hence
the recursion depth is bounded to be less than log2(n) i.e. 1
level per significant bit in the array size n.
The update also includes code comments explaining the algorithm.
Newlib has a build configuration where syscalls can be directly
embedded in the newlib library rather than relying on libgloss.
This configuration was broken recently by an update to the libgloss
support for Arm that was not propagated to the syscalls interface in
newlib itself. This patch restores the build. It's essentially a
copy of https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2018/msg00128.html but there
are some other minor cleanups and changes that I've made at the same
time. None of those cleanups affect functionality.
The prototypes of the following functions have been updated: _link,
_sbrk, _getpid, _write, _swiwrite, _lseek, _swilseek, _read and
_swiread.
Signed-off-by: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
E.g. arm ABI requires -fshort-enums for bare-metal toolchains.
Given there are only 29 category enums, the compiler chooses an
8 bit enum type, so a size of 11 bits for the bitfield leads to
a compile time error:
error: width of 'cat' exceeds its type
enum category cat: 11;
^~~
Fix this by aligning the size of the category members to byte
borders.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Scripts do not try to acquire Unicode data by best-effort magic anymore.
Options supported:
-h for help
-i to copy Unicode data from /usr/share/unicode/ucd first
-u to download Unicode data from unicode.org first
If (despite of -i or -u if given) the necessary Unicode files are not
available locally, table generation is skipped, but no error code is
returned, so not to obstruct the build process if called from a Makefile.
E.g. arm ABI requires -fshort-enums for bare-metal toolchains.
Given there are only 29 category enums, the compiler chooses an
8 bit enum type, so a size of 11 bits for the bitfield leads to
a compile time error:
error: width of 'cat' exceeds its type
enum category cat: 11;
^~~
Fix this by aligning the size of the category members to byte
borders.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
touupper and toulower didn't return a value in all cases. Worse,
this only broke Cygwin when building without optimization for debug
purposes.
Why GCC neglects to notice this is a mystery.
While at it, fix formatting.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
The tow* functions use an included case conversion table which can be
generated from Unicode data.
The isw* functions use a character categories table (provided by
categories.c) which can be generated from Unicode data.
Delegation between current-locale and specific-locale-dependent functions
was reverted towards the generic locale-dependent functions (*_l.c);
this is however only relevant on systems with non-Unicode wide character
locales, thus not on Cygwin.
Table categories.t and tag enumeration categories.cat provide
character class data for most of the isw* functions.
These data are generated from Unicode data.
Linux and FreeBSD use int as well. In addition, this fixes an Ada
incompatiblity problem on 64-bit targets. See also GCC:
gcc/ada/libgnarl/s-osinte__rtems.ads
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Locale modifier @cjkwide makes Unicode "ambiguous width" characters
wide. So ambiguous width characters can be enforced to have width 2
even in non-CJK locales. This gives e.g. users of "Powerline symbols"
the opportunity to adjust their width to the desired behaviour (and the
behaviour apparently expected by some tools) without having to set a CJK
locale and without losing consistence of terminal character width with
wcwidth/wcswidth locale width.
At least with Binutils 2.30 and GCC 7.3 we need symbol definitions
without the leading underscore.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
This is a NetBSD-specific detail which does not apply to Newlib, causing
linking issues in certain scenarios:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00189.html
Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>
New optimized powf, logf, log2f, expf and exp2f yield worse performance
on Arm targets with only single precision instructions because the
double precision arithmetic is then implemented via softfloat routines.
This patch uses the old implementation when double precision
instructions are not available on Arm targets.
Testing: Built newlib with GCC's rmprofile Arm multilibs and compared
before/after -> only the above functions are changed and calls to them
(name change from logf to __ieee754_logf and similar). Testing the
changed function on a panel of values yields the same result before the
original patches to improve them and after this one. Double checking the
performance by looping the same panel of values being tested on Arm
Cortex-M4 does show the performance regression is fixed.
Kumar Gala