[PATCH v3 8/8] xor: Add AVX-512 optimized xor_gen()

Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-um,org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-raid
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Add an implementation of xor_gen() using AVX-512.

It uses 512-bit vectors, i.e. ZMM registers.  It also uses the
vpternlogq instruction to do three-input XORs when applicable.

It's enabled on x86_64 CPUs that have AVX512F && !PREFER_YMM.  In
practice that means:

    - AMD Zen 4 and later (client and server)
    - Intel Sapphire Rapids and later (server)
    - Intel Rocket Lake (client)
    - Intel Nova Lake and later (client)

The !PREFER_YMM condition excludes the older AVX-512 implementations in
Intel Skylake Server and Intel Ice Lake.  They could run this code, but
they're known to have overly-eager downclocking when ZMM registers are
used.  This is the same policy that the crypto and CRC code uses.

Benchmark on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5):

    src_cnt    avx          avx512       Improvement
    =======    ==========   ==========   ===========
    1          56353 MB/s   75388 MB/s   33%
    2          54274 MB/s   68409 MB/s   26%
    3          44649 MB/s   64042 MB/s   43%
    4          41315 MB/s   55002 MB/s   33%

Reviewed-by: David Laight <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
---
 lib/raid/xor/Makefile         |   2 +-
 lib/raid/xor/x86/xor-avx512.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/raid/xor/x86/xor_arch.h   |  30 ++++++---
 3 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/raid/xor/x86/xor-avx512.c

diff --git a/lib/raid/xor/Makefile b/lib/raid/xor/Makefile
index e8ecec3c09f9..4a0e5c6d8298 100644
--- a/lib/raid/xor/Makefile
+++ b/lib/raid/xor/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ xor-$(CONFIG_SPARC32)		+= sparc/xor-sparc32.o
 xor-$(CONFIG_SPARC64)		+= sparc/xor-sparc64.o sparc/xor-sparc64-glue.o
 xor-$(CONFIG_S390)		+= s390/xor.o
 xor-$(CONFIG_X86_32)		+= x86/xor-avx.o x86/xor-sse.o x86/xor-mmx.o
-xor-$(CONFIG_X86_64)		+= x86/xor-avx.o x86/xor-sse.o
+xor-$(CONFIG_X86_64)		+= x86/xor-avx.o x86/xor-sse.o x86/xor-avx512.o
 obj-y				+= tests/
 
 CFLAGS_xor-neon.o		+= $(CC_FLAGS_FPU) -I$(src)/$(SRCARCH)
diff --git a/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor-avx512.c b/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor-avx512.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..17f57900d827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor-avx512.c
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * AVX-512 optimized implementation of xor_gen()
+ *
+ * Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/fpu/api.h>
+#include "xor_impl.h"
+#include "xor_arch.h"
+
+/*
+ * Implementation notes:
+ *
+ * Unrolling by the number of buffers (2-5) is very important.
+ *
+ * Unrolling by length is less important, especially when using register-indexed
+ * addressing with negative indices from the end of the buffers.  That approach
+ * results in just two loop control instructions being needed per iteration,
+ * regardless of the number of buffers.
+ *
+ * In fact, benchmarks showed that the 2 and 3 buffer cases require only 2x
+ * unrolling by length, while the 4 and 5 buffer cases don't require any
+ * unrolling by length.  Benchmarks also showed that the register-indexed
+ * addressing isn't a bottleneck either; i.e., we can't do any better by
+ * incrementing the pointers as we go along, even with more unrolling.
+ */
+
+static void xor_avx512_2(long bytes, u8 *p1, const u8 *p2)
+{
+	long i = -bytes;
+
+	asm volatile("1: vmovdqa64 (%1,%0), %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 64(%1,%0), %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vpxorq (%2,%0), %%zmm0, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vpxorq 64(%2,%0), %%zmm1, %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm0, (%1,%0)\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm1, 64(%1,%0)\n"
+		     "add $128, %0\n"
+		     "jnz 1b\n"
+		     : "+&r"(i)
+		     : "r"(p1 + bytes), "r"(p2 + bytes)
+		     : "memory", "cc");
+}
+
+static void xor_avx512_3(long bytes, u8 *p1, const u8 *p2, const u8 *p3)
+{
+	long i = -bytes;
+
+	asm volatile("1: vmovdqa64 (%1,%0), %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 64(%1,%0), %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 (%2,%0), %%zmm2\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 64(%2,%0), %%zmm3\n"
+		     "vpternlogq $0x96, (%3,%0), %%zmm2, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vpternlogq $0x96, 64(%3,%0), %%zmm3, %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm0, (%1,%0)\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm1, 64(%1,%0)\n"
+		     "add $128, %0\n"
+		     "jnz 1b\n"
+		     : "+&r"(i)
+		     : "r"(p1 + bytes), "r"(p2 + bytes), "r"(p3 + bytes)
+		     : "memory", "cc");
+}
+
+static void xor_avx512_4(long bytes, u8 *p1, const u8 *p2, const u8 *p3,
+			 const u8 *p4)
+{
+	long i = -bytes;
+
+	asm volatile("1: vmovdqa64 (%1,%0), %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 (%2,%0), %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vpxorq (%3,%0), %%zmm0, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vpternlogq $0x96, (%4,%0), %%zmm1, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm0, (%1,%0)\n"
+		     "add $64, %0\n"
+		     "jnz 1b\n"
+		     : "+&r"(i)
+		     : "r"(p1 + bytes), "r"(p2 + bytes), "r"(p3 + bytes),
+		       "r"(p4 + bytes)
+		     : "memory", "cc");
+}
+
+static void xor_avx512_5(long bytes, u8 *p1, const u8 *p2, const u8 *p3,
+			 const u8 *p4, const u8 *p5)
+{
+	long i = -bytes;
+
+	asm volatile("1: vmovdqa64 (%1,%0), %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 (%2,%0), %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vpternlogq $0x96, (%3,%0), %%zmm1, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 (%4,%0), %%zmm1\n"
+		     "vpternlogq $0x96, (%5,%0), %%zmm1, %%zmm0\n"
+		     "vmovdqa64 %%zmm0, (%1,%0)\n"
+		     "add $64, %0\n"
+		     "jnz 1b\n"
+		     : "+&r"(i)
+		     : "r"(p1 + bytes), "r"(p2 + bytes), "r"(p3 + bytes),
+		       "r"(p4 + bytes), "r"(p5 + bytes)
+		     : "memory", "cc");
+}
+
+DO_XOR_BLOCKS(avx512_inner, xor_avx512_2, xor_avx512_3, xor_avx512_4,
+	      xor_avx512_5);
+
+/*
+ * Preconditions: bytes is a nonzero multiple of 512, and all buffers are
+ * 64-byte aligned.
+ */
+static void xor_gen_avx512(void *dest, void **srcs, unsigned int src_cnt,
+			   unsigned int bytes)
+{
+	kernel_fpu_begin();
+	xor_gen_avx512_inner(dest, srcs, src_cnt, bytes);
+	kernel_fpu_end();
+}
+
+struct xor_block_template xor_block_avx512 = {
+	.name = "avx512",
+	.xor_gen = xor_gen_avx512,
+};
diff --git a/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor_arch.h b/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor_arch.h
index 991abe3f4bbd..ed5921d2e2aa 100644
--- a/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor_arch.h
+++ b/lib/raid/xor/x86/xor_arch.h
@@ -6,21 +6,31 @@ extern struct xor_block_template xor_block_p5_mmx;
 extern struct xor_block_template xor_block_sse;
 extern struct xor_block_template xor_block_sse_pf64;
 extern struct xor_block_template xor_block_avx;
+extern struct xor_block_template xor_block_avx512;
 
-/*
- * When SSE is available, use it as it can write around L2.  We may also be able
- * to load into the L1 only depending on how the cpu deals with a load to a line
- * that is being prefetched.
- *
- * When AVX2 is available, force using it as it is better by all measures.
- *
- * 32-bit without MMX can fall back to the generic routines.
- */
 static __always_inline void __init arch_xor_init(void)
 {
-	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVX)) {
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F) &&
+	    !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PREFER_YMM)) {
+		/*
+		 * Use the AVX-512 code on CPUs that support AVX-512 without
+		 * overly-eager downclocking.  On such CPUs the AVX-512 code
+		 * should always work at least as well as the AVX code, so
+		 * runtime selection is unnecessary.
+		 *
+		 * The AVX-512 code can work on X86_32.  However, due to lack of
+		 * use case for that, for now it's built only for X86_64.
+		 */
+		xor_force(&xor_block_avx512);
+	} else if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVX)) {
+		/* AVX will be the best; no need to try others. */
 		xor_force(&xor_block_avx);
 	} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) || boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM)) {
+		/*
+		 * When SSE is available, use it as it can write around L2.  We
+		 * may also be able to load into the L1 only depending on how
+		 * the cpu deals with a load to a line that is being prefetched.
+		 */
 		xor_register(&xor_block_sse);
 		xor_register(&xor_block_sse_pf64);
 	} else if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MMX)) {
-- 
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