Commit 777cf0fb authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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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: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4006)

(cherry picked from commit 738a9dd5)
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