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BMI2 provides 3 shift instructions (shrx, sarx and shlx) that use VEX
encoding but target general purpose registers [1]. They allow the shift
count in any general purpose register and have the same performance as
non BMI2 shift instructions [2].
Instead of shr/sar/shl that implicitly use %cl (lowest 8 bit of %rcx),
emit their more flexible alternatives provided in BMI2 when advantageous;
keep using the non BMI2 instructions when shift count is already in
BPF_REG_4/%rcx as non BMI2 instructions are shorter.
To summarize, when BMI2 is available:
-------------------------------------------------
| arbitrary dst
=================================================
src == ecx | shl dst, cl
-------------------------------------------------
src != ecx | shlx dst, dst, src
-------------------------------------------------
And no additional register shuffling is needed.
A concrete example between non BMI2 and BMI2 codegen. To shift %rsi by
%rdi:
Without BMI2:
ef3: push %rcx
51
ef4: mov %rdi,%rcx
48 89 f9
ef7: shl %cl,%rsi
48 d3 e6
efa: pop %rcx
59
With BMI2:
f0b: shlx %rdi,%rsi,%rsi
c4 e2 c1 f7 f6
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruction_set
[2] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
Signed-off-by: Jie Meng <jmeng@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221007202348.1118830-3-jmeng@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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