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    crypto: algapi - annotate expected branch behavior in crypto_inc() · 27c539ae
    Ard Biesheuvel authored
    
    
    To prevent unnecessary branching, mark the exit condition of the
    primary loop as likely(), given that a carry in a 32-bit counter
    occurs very rarely.
    
    On arm64, the resulting code is emitted by GCC as
    
         9a8:   cmp     w1, #0x3
         9ac:   add     x3, x0, w1, uxtw
         9b0:   b.ls    9e0 <crypto_inc+0x38>
         9b4:   ldr     w2, [x3,#-4]!
         9b8:   rev     w2, w2
         9bc:   add     w2, w2, #0x1
         9c0:   rev     w4, w2
         9c4:   str     w4, [x3]
         9c8:   cbz     w2, 9d0 <crypto_inc+0x28>
         9cc:   ret
    
    where the two remaining branch conditions (one for size < 4 and one for
    the carry) are statically predicted as non-taken, resulting in optimal
    execution in the vast majority of cases.
    
    Also, replace the open coded alignment test with IS_ALIGNED().
    
    Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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