How old?
On February 21, 2014 2:32:50 AM PST, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
>Just like for other ISA extension instruction uses we should check
>whether the assembler actually supports them. The fallback here simply
>is to encode an instruction with fixed operands (%eax and %ecx).
>
>Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>Cc: Francesco Fusco <ffu...@redhat.com>
>Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dbork...@redhat.com>
>Cc: Thomas Graf <tg...@redhat.com>
>Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
>---
> arch/x86/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/lib/hash.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
>--- 3.14-rc3-x86-hash-crc32.orig/arch/x86/Makefile
>+++ 3.14-rc3-x86-hash-crc32/arch/x86/Makefile
>@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sec
>
> # does binutils support specific instructions?
> asinstr := $(call as-instr,fxsaveq (%rax),-DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1)
>+asinstr += $(call as-instr,crc32l
>%eax$(comma)%eax,-DCONFIG_AS_CRC32=1)
>avx_instr := $(call as-instr,vxorps
>%ymm0$(comma)%ymm1$(comma)%ymm2,-DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1)
>avx2_instr :=$(call as-instr,vpbroadcastb
>%xmm0$(comma)%ymm1,-DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1)
>
>--- 3.14-rc3-x86-hash-crc32.orig/arch/x86/lib/hash.c
>+++ 3.14-rc3-x86-hash-crc32/arch/x86/lib/hash.c
>@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@
>
> static inline u32 crc32_u32(u32 crc, u32 val)
> {
>+#ifdef CONFIG_AS_CRC32
> asm ("crc32l %1,%0\n" : "+r" (crc) : "rm" (val));
>+#else
>+ asm (".byte 0xf2, 0x0f, 0x38, 0xf1, 0xc1" : "+a" (crc) : "c" (val));
>+#endif
> return crc;
> }
>
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