The initial commit 5d018dc035
in 2007 had a comment in sha256.c that the code is based on
Crypto++ Library 5.5.1. In 2009 the Authors list in sha256.c
and the AUTHORS file was updated with information that the
code had come from Crypto++ but via 7-Zip. I know I had viewed
7-Zip's SHA-256 code but back then the C code has been identical
enough with Crypto++, so I don't why I thought the author info
would need that extra step via 7-Zip for this single file.
Another error is that I had mixed sha.* and shacal2.* files
when checking for author info in Crypto++. The shacal2.* files
aren't related to liblzma's sha256.c and thus Kevin Springle's
code in Crypto++ isn't either.
If liblzma is configured with --disable-clmul-crc
CFLAGS="-msse4.1 -mpclmul", then it will fail to compile because the
generic version must be used but the CRC tables were not included.
The code was using HAVE_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_IFUNC instead of CRC_USE_IFUNC.
With ARM64, ifunc is incompatible because it requires non-inline
function calls for runtime detection.
Even though the proper name for the architecture is aarch64, this
project uses ARM64 throughout. So the rename is for consistency.
Additionally, crc32_arm64.h was slightly refactored for the following
changes:
* Added MSVC, FreeBSD, and macOS support in
is_arch_extension_supported().
* crc32_arch_optimized() now checks the size when aligning the
buffer.
* crc32_arch_optimized() loop conditions were slightly modified to
avoid both decrementing the size and incrementing the buffer
pointer.
* Use the intrinsic wrappers defined in <arm_acle.h> because GCC and
Clang name them differently.
* Minor spacing and comment changes.
The CRC_GENERIC is now split into CRC32_GENERIC and CRC64_GENERIC, since
the ARM64 optimizations will be different between CRC32 and CRC64.
For the same reason, CRC_ARCH_OPTIMIZED is split into
CRC32_ARCH_OPTIMIZED and CRC64_ARCH_OPTIMIZED.
ifunc will only be used with x86-64 CLMUL because the runtime detection
methods needed with ARM64 are not compatible with ifunc.
This adds --enable-arm64-crc32/--disable-arm64-crc32 (enabled by
default) for using the ARM64 CRC32 instruction. This can be disabled if
one knows the binary will never need to run on an ARM64 machine
with this instruction extension.
The CRC32 instructions in ARM64 can calculate the CRC32 result
for 8 bytes in a single operation, making the use of ARM64
instructions much faster compared to the general CRC32 algorithm.
Optimized CRC32 will be enabled if ARM64 has CRC extension
running on Linux.
Signed-off-by: Chenxi Mao <chenxi.mao2013@gmail.com>
The PROJECT_LOGO field is now used to include the XZ logo. The footer
of each page now lists the copyright information instead of the default
footer. The license is also copied to statisfy the copyright and so the
link in the documentation can be local.
This hopefully does more good than bad:
+ It's faster by default.
+ Only the threaded compressor creates files that
can be decompressed in threaded mode.
- Compression ratio is worse, usually not too much though.
When it matters, -T1 must be used.
- Memory usage increases.
- Scripts that assume single-threaded mode but don't use -T1 will
possibly use too much resources, for example, if they run
multiple xz processes in parallel to compress multiple files.
- Output from single-threaded and multi-threaded compressors
differ but such changes could happen for other reasons too
(they just haven't happened since 5.0.0).
Not all RISC-V processors support fast unaligned access so
it's better to read only one byte in the main loop. This can
be faster even on x86-64 when compared to reading 32 bits at
a time as half the time the address is only 16-bit aligned.
The downside is larger code size on archs that do support
fast unaligned access.
Version 5.6.0 will be shown, even though upcoming alphas and betas
will be able to support this filter. 5.6.0 looks nicer in the output and
people shouldn't be encouraged to use an unstable version in production
in any way.
Lasse Collin
Jia Tan
Chenxi Mao