[Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4 2/9] cutils: add a function to find non-zero content in a buffer

[Peter Lieven]

this adds buffer_find_nonzero_offset() which is a SSE2/Altivec
optimized function that searches for non-zero content in a
buffer.

due to the optimizations used in the function there are restrictions
on buffer address and search length. the function
can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_content() can be used to check if
the function can be used safely.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
---
 include/qemu-common.h |   13 +++++++++++++
 util/cutils.c         |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index e76ade3..078e535 100644
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -472,4 +472,17 @@ void hexdump(const char *buf, FILE *fp, const char 
*prefix, size_t size);
 #define ALL_EQ(v1, v2) ((v1) == (v2))
 #endif
 
+#define BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR 8
+static inline bool
+can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    if (len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
+                * sizeof(VECTYPE)) == 0
+            && ((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(VECTYPE) == 0) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index 1439da4..41c627e 100644
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -143,6 +143,51 @@ int qemu_fdatasync(int fd)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Searches for an area with non-zero content in a buffer
+ *
+ * Attention! The len must be a multiple of
+ * BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR * sizeof(VECTYPE)
+ * and addr must be a multiple of sizeof(VECTYPE) due to
+ * restriction of optimizations in this function.
+ *
+ * can_use_buffer_find_nonzero_offset() can be used to check
+ * these requirements.
+ *
+ * The return value is the offset of the non-zero area rounded
+ * down to BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR * sizeof(VECTYPE).
+ * If the buffer is all zero the return value is equal to len.
+ */
+
+size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    VECTYPE *p = (VECTYPE *)buf;
+    VECTYPE zero = ZERO_SPLAT;
+    size_t i;
+
+    assert(len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
+        * sizeof(VECTYPE)) == 0);
+    assert(((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(VECTYPE) == 0);
+
+    if (*((const long *) buf)) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < len / sizeof(VECTYPE);
+            i += BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR) {
+        VECTYPE tmp0 = p[i + 0] | p[i + 1];
+        VECTYPE tmp1 = p[i + 2] | p[i + 3];
+        VECTYPE tmp2 = p[i + 4] | p[i + 5];
+        VECTYPE tmp3 = p[i + 6] | p[i + 7];
+        VECTYPE tmp01 = tmp0 | tmp1;
+        VECTYPE tmp23 = tmp2 | tmp3;
+        if (!ALL_EQ(tmp01 | tmp23, zero)) {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    return i * sizeof(VECTYPE);
+}
+
+/*
  * Checks if a buffer is all zeroes
  *
  * Attention! The len must be a multiple of 4 * sizeof(long) due to
-- 
1.7.9.5