Commit 146034fe authored by Vincent Mailhol's avatar Vincent Mailhol Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/asm/bitops: Use __builtin_ffs() to evaluate constant expressions

For x86_64, the current ffs() implementation does not produce optimized
code when called with a constant expression. On the contrary, the
__builtin_ffs() functions of both GCC and clang are able to fold the
expression into a single instruction.

** Example **

Consider two dummy functions foo() and bar() as below:

  #include <linux/bitops.h>
  #define CONST 0x01000000

  unsigned int foo(void)
  {
  	return ffs(CONST);
  }

  unsigned int bar(void)
  {
  	return __builtin_ffs(CONST);
  }

GCC would produce below assembly code:

  0000000000000000 <foo>:
     0:	ba 00 00 00 01       	mov    $0x1000000,%edx
     5:	b8 ff ff ff ff       	mov    $0xffffffff,%eax
     a:	0f bc c2             	bsf    %edx,%eax
     d:	83 c0 01             	add    $0x1,%eax
    10:	c3                   	ret
  <Instructions after ret and before next function were redacted>

  0000000000000020 <bar>:
    20:	b8 19 00 00 00       	mov    $0x19,%eax
    25:	c3                   	ret

And clang would produce:

  0000000000000000 <foo>:
     0:	b8 ff ff ff ff       	mov    $0xffffffff,%eax
     5:	0f bc 05 00 00 00 00 	bsf    0x0(%rip),%eax        # c <foo+0xc>
     c:	83 c0 01             	add    $0x1,%eax
     f:	c3                   	ret

  0000000000000010 <bar>:
    10:	b8 19 00 00 00       	mov    $0x19,%eax
    15:	c3                   	ret

Both examples clearly demonstrate the benefit of using __builtin_ffs()
instead of the kernel's asm implementation for constant expressions.

However, for non constant expressions, the kernel's ffs() asm version
remains better for x86_64 because, contrary to GCC, it doesn't emit the
CMOV assembly instruction, c.f. [1] (noticeably, clang is able optimize
out the CMOV call).

Use __builtin_constant_p() to select between the kernel's ffs() and
the __builtin_ffs() depending on whether the argument is constant or
not.

As a side benefit, replacing the ffs() function declaration by a macro
also removes below -Wshadow warning:

  ./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:283:28: warning: declaration of 'ffs' shadows a built-in function [-Wshadow]
    283 | static __always_inline int ffs(int x)

** Statistics **

On a allyesconfig, before...:

  $ objdump -d vmlinux.o | grep bsf | wc -l
  1081

...and after:

  $ objdump -d vmlinux.o | grep bsf | wc -l
  792

So, roughly 26.7% of the calls to ffs() were using constant
expressions and could be optimized out.

(tests done on linux v5.18-rc5 x86_64 using GCC 11.2.1)

[1] commit ca3d30cc ("x86_64, asm: Optimise fls(), ffs() and fls64()")

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511160319.1045812-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr
parent 521a547c
...@@ -292,18 +292,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word) ...@@ -292,18 +292,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word)
#undef ADDR #undef ADDR
#ifdef __KERNEL__ #ifdef __KERNEL__
/** static __always_inline int variable_ffs(int x)
* ffs - find first set bit in word
* @x: the word to search
*
* This is defined the same way as the libc and compiler builtin ffs
* routines, therefore differs in spirit from the other bitops.
*
* ffs(value) returns 0 if value is 0 or the position of the first
* set bit if value is nonzero. The first (least significant) bit
* is at position 1.
*/
static __always_inline int ffs(int x)
{ {
int r; int r;
...@@ -333,6 +322,19 @@ static __always_inline int ffs(int x) ...@@ -333,6 +322,19 @@ static __always_inline int ffs(int x)
return r + 1; return r + 1;
} }
/**
* ffs - find first set bit in word
* @x: the word to search
*
* This is defined the same way as the libc and compiler builtin ffs
* routines, therefore differs in spirit from the other bitops.
*
* ffs(value) returns 0 if value is 0 or the position of the first
* set bit if value is nonzero. The first (least significant) bit
* is at position 1.
*/
#define ffs(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? __builtin_ffs(x) : variable_ffs(x))
/** /**
* fls - find last set bit in word * fls - find last set bit in word
* @x: the word to search * @x: the word to search
......
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