[patch 12/13] syslets: x86: optimized copy_uatom()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

provide an optimized assembly version of the copy_uatom() method.
This is about 3 times faster than the C version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/i386/lib/getuser.S |  115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+)

Index: linux/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
+++ linux/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
@@ -10,6 +10,121 @@
  */
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
 
+/*
+ * copy_uatom() - copy a syslet_atom from user-space into kernel-space:
+ */
+
+.text
+.align 4
+.globl copy_uatom
+copy_uatom:
+	#
+	# regparm(2) call, %eax: atom, %edx: uatom
+	#
+	movl %eax, %ecx                 # %ecx is atom, %edx remains uatom
+
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET-40, %edx	# access_ok(uatom-sizeof(*uatom))
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+
+
+1:	movl (%edx), %eax		# atom->flags = uatom->flags
+	movl %eax, (%ecx)
+
+2:	movl 4(%edx), %eax		# atom->nr = uatom->nr
+	movl %eax, 4(%ecx)
+
+3:	movl 8(%edx), %eax		# atom->ret_ptr = uatom->ret_ptr
+	movl %eax, 8(%ecx)
+
+4:	movl 12(%edx), %eax		# atom->next = uatom->next
+	movl %eax, 12(%ecx)
+
+
+10:	movl 16(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[0] = uatom->arg_ptr[0]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 20f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+100:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 16(%ecx)
+
+11:	movl 20(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[1] = uatom->arg_ptr[1]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 21f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+110:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 20(%ecx)
+
+12:	movl 24(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[2] = uatom->arg_ptr[2]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 22f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+120:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 24(%ecx)
+
+13:	movl 28(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[3] = uatom->arg_ptr[3]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 23f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+130:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 28(%ecx)
+
+14:	movl 32(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[4] = uatom->arg_ptr[4]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 24f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+140:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 32(%ecx)
+
+15:	movl 36(%edx), %eax		# atom->arg_ptr[5] = uatom->arg_ptr[5]
+	testl %eax, %eax
+	jz 25f				# NULL ptr - zero out remaining args
+	cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax	# access_ok(arg_ptr)
+	jae bad_copy_uatom
+150:	movl (%eax), %eax
+	movl %eax, 36(%ecx)
+
+	xorl %eax, %eax			# return 0
+	ret
+
+	#
+	# Zero out arg values. Since ptr was NULL, %eax is zero:
+	#
+20:	movl %eax, 16(%ecx)		# atom->args[0] = 0
+21:	movl %eax, 20(%ecx)		# atom->args[1] = 0
+22:	movl %eax, 24(%ecx)		# atom->args[2] = 0
+23:	movl %eax, 28(%ecx)		# atom->args[3] = 0
+24:	movl %eax, 32(%ecx)		# atom->args[4] = 0
+25:	movl %eax, 36(%ecx)		# atom->args[5] = 0
+
+	ret				# return 0
+
+bad_copy_uatom:
+	movl $-14, %eax
+	ret
+
+.section __ex_table,"a"
+	.long 1b,   bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 2b,   bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 3b,   bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 4b,   bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 10b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 100b, bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 11b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 110b, bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 12b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 120b, bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 13b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 130b, bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 14b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 140b, bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 15b,  bad_copy_uatom
+	.long 150b, bad_copy_uatom
+.previous
 
 /*
  * __get_user_X
-
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