arch/alpha/lib/memchr.S
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
arch/alpha/lib/memchr.S- Extension
.S- Size
- 5049 bytes
- Lines
- 166
- Domain
- Architecture Layer
- Bucket
- arch/alpha
- Inferred role
- Architecture Layer: exported/initcall integration point
- Status
- integration implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.
- Exports symbols or registers init work; inspect boot/module ordering and who consumes the exported contract.
Dependency Surface
linux/export.h
Detected Declarations
export memchr
Annotated Snippet
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by David Mosberger (davidm@cs.arizona.edu).
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/* Finds characters in a memory area. Optimized for the Alpha:
- memory accessed as aligned quadwords only
- uses cmpbge to compare 8 bytes in parallel
- does binary search to find 0 byte in last
quadword (HAKMEM needed 12 instructions to
do this instead of the 9 instructions that
binary search needs).
For correctness consider that:
- only minimum number of quadwords may be accessed
- the third argument is an unsigned long
*/
#include <linux/export.h>
.set noreorder
.set noat
.globl memchr
.ent memchr
memchr:
.frame $30,0,$26,0
.prologue 0
# Hack -- if someone passes in (size_t)-1, hoping to just
# search til the end of the address space, we will overflow
# below when we find the address of the last byte. Given
# that we will never have a 56-bit address space, cropping
# the length is the easiest way to avoid trouble.
zap $18, 0x80, $5 #-e0 :
beq $18, $not_found # .. e1 :
ldq_u $1, 0($16) # e1 : load first quadword
insbl $17, 1, $2 # .. e0 : $2 = 000000000000ch00
and $17, 0xff, $17 #-e0 : $17 = 00000000000000ch
cmpult $18, 9, $4 # .. e1 :
or $2, $17, $17 # e0 : $17 = 000000000000chch
lda $3, -1($31) # .. e1 :
sll $17, 16, $2 #-e0 : $2 = 00000000chch0000
addq $16, $5, $5 # .. e1 :
or $2, $17, $17 # e1 : $17 = 00000000chchchch
unop # :
sll $17, 32, $2 #-e0 : $2 = chchchch00000000
or $2, $17, $17 # e1 : $17 = chchchchchchchch
extql $1, $16, $7 # e0 :
beq $4, $first_quad # .. e1 :
ldq_u $6, -1($5) #-e1 : eight or less bytes to search
extqh $6, $16, $6 # .. e0 :
mov $16, $0 # e0 :
or $7, $6, $1 # .. e1 : $1 = quadword starting at $16
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/export.h`.
- Detected declarations: `export memchr`.
- Atlas domain: Architecture Layer / arch/alpha.
- Implementation status: integration implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.