Re: [RFC] x86/csum: rewrite csum_partial()

[Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 8:02 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:
>

> Thanks Peter !
>
> This is more or less the first version I wrote. (I was doing tests for
> (len & 32), (len & 16) .. to not have to update len in these blocks.
>
> Then, I tried to add an inline version, a la ip_fast_csum() but for IPv6.
>
> Then I came up with the version I sent, for some reason my .config had
> temporarily disabled CONFIG_RETPOLINE,
> thanks for reminding me this !
>
> I also missed this warning anyway :
> arch/x86/lib/csum-partial_64.o: warning: objtool: csum_partial()+0x2f:
> unannotated intra-function call
>
> I will spend a bit more time on this before sending a V2, thanks again !

BTW, I could not understand why :

               result = add32_with_carry(result, *(u32 *)buff);

generates this code :

 123: 41 8b 09              mov    (%r9),%ecx
 126: 89 4d f8              mov    %ecx,-0x8(%rbp)
 129: 03 45 f8              add    -0x8(%rbp),%eax
 12c: 83 d0 00              adc    $0x0,%eax

Apparently add32_with_carry() forces the use of use of a temporary in memory

While
               asm("   addl 0*4(%[src]),%[res]\n"
                   "   adcl $0,%[res]\n"
                       : [res] "=r" (result)
                       : [src] "r" (buff), "[res]" (result)
                        : "memory");

gives

 120: 41 03 01              add    (%r9),%eax
 123: 83 d0 00              adc    $0x0,%eax