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David Gibson
eb5e123038 cppcheck: Reduce scope of some variables
Minor style improvement suggested by cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-09-29 12:22:01 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
17689cc9bf arch, passt: Use executable link to form AVX2 binary path
...instead of argv[0], which might or might not contain a valid path
to the executable itself. Instead of mangling argv[0], use the same
link to find out if we're already running the AVX2 build where
supported.

Alternatively, we could use execvpe(), but that might result in
running a different installed version, in case e.g. the set of
binaries is present in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, with both
being in $PATH.

Reported-by: Wenli Quan <wquan@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101310
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-07-14 01:36:05 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
0bf6adc886 arch: Pointer to local outside scope, CWE-562
Reported by Coverity: if we fail to run the AVX2 version, once
execve() fails, we had already replaced argv[0] with the new
stack-allocated path string, and that's then passed back to
main(). Use a static variable instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-04-07 11:44:35 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
213c397492 passt, pasta: Run-time selection of AVX2 build
Build-time selection of AVX2 flags and routines is not practical for
distributions, but limiting AVX2 usage to checksum routines with
specific run-time detection doesn't allow for easy performance gains
from auto-vectorisation of batched packet handling routines.

For x86_64, build non-AVX2 and AVX2 binaries, and implement a simple
wrapper replacing the current executable with the AVX2 build if it's
available, and if AVX2 is supported by the current CPU.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-28 16:46:28 +01:00