x86_64 assembly pack: "optimize" for Knights Landing.
"Optimize" is in quotes because it's rather a "salvage operation" for now. Idea is to identify processor capability flags that drive Knights Landing to suboptimial code paths and mask them. Two flags were identified, XSAVE and ADCX/ADOX. Former affects choice of AES-NI code path specific for Silvermont (Knights Landing is of Silvermont "ancestry"). And 64-bit ADCX/ADOX instructions are effectively mishandled at decode time. In both cases we are looking at ~2x improvement. Hardware used for benchmarking courtesy of Atos, experiments run by Romain Dolbeau <romain.dolbeau@atos.net>. Kudos! This is minimalistic backpoint of 64d92d74 Thanks to David Benjamin for spotting typo in Knights Landing detection! Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4006)
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