cutils: add a function to find non-zero content in a buffer

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

the function starts full unrolling only after the first few chunks have
been checked one by one. analyzing real memory page data has revealed
that non-zero pages are non-zero within the first 256-512 bits in
most cases. as this function is also heavily used to check for zero memory
pages this tweak has been made to avoid the high setup costs of the fully
unrolled check for non-zero pages.

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 <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index d7ad3a70f1..31fff22f32 100644
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -469,4 +469,14 @@ 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)
+{
+    return (len % (BUFFER_FIND_NONZERO_OFFSET_UNROLL_FACTOR
+                   * sizeof(VECTYPE)) == 0
+            && ((uintptr_t) buf) % sizeof(VECTYPE) == 0);
+}
+size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len);
+
 #endif