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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <math.h>

unsigned long long rdtsc(){
        asm("rdtsc");
}

char* slow_memcpy(char* dest, const char* src, size_t len){
        int i;
        for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
                dest[i] = src[i];
        }
        return dest;
}

char* fast_memcpy(char* dest, const char* src, size_t len){
        size_t i;
        // 64-byte block fast copy
        if(len >= 64){
                i = len / 64;
                len &= (64-1);
                while(i-- > 0){
                        __asm__ __volatile__ (
                        "movdqa (%0), %%xmm0\n"
                        "movdqa 16(%0), %%xmm1\n"
                        "movdqa 32(%0), %%xmm2\n"
                        "movdqa 48(%0), %%xmm3\n"
                        "movntps %%xmm0, (%1)\n"
                        "movntps %%xmm1, 16(%1)\n"
                        "movntps %%xmm2, 32(%1)\n"
                        "movntps %%xmm3, 48(%1)\n"
                        ::"r"(src),"r"(dest):"memory");
                        dest += 64;
                        src += 64;
                }
        }

        // byte-to-byte slow copy
        if(len) slow_memcpy(dest, src, len);
        return dest;
}

int main(void){

        setvbuf(stdout, 0, _IONBF, 0);
        setvbuf(stdin, 0, _IOLBF, 0);

        printf("Hey, I have a boring assignment for CS class.. :(\n");
        printf("The assignment is simple.\n");

        printf("-----------------------------------------------------\n");
        printf("- What is the best implementation of memcpy?        -\n");
        printf("- 1. implement your own slow/fast version of memcpy -\n");
        printf("- 2. compare them with various size of data         -\n");
        printf("- 3. conclude your experiment and submit report     -\n");
        printf("-----------------------------------------------------\n");

        printf("This time, just help me out with my experiment and get flag\n");
        printf("No fancy hacking, I promise :D\n");

        unsigned long long t1, t2;
        int e;
        char* src;
        char* dest;
        unsigned int low, high;
        unsigned int size;
        // allocate memory
        char* cache1 = mmap(0, 0x4000, 7, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        char* cache2 = mmap(0, 0x4000, 7, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        src = mmap(0, 0x2000, 7, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

        size_t sizes[10];
        int i=0;

        // setup experiment parameters
        for(e=4; e<14; e++){    // 2^13 = 8K
                low = pow(2,e-1);
                high = pow(2,e);
                printf("specify the memcpy amount between %d ~ %d : ", low, high);
                scanf("%d", &size);
                if( size < low || size > high ){
                        printf("don't mess with the experiment.\n");
                        exit(0);
                }
                sizes[i++] = size;
        }

        sleep(1);
        printf("ok, lets run the experiment with your configuration\n");
        sleep(1);

        // run experiment
        for(i=0; i<10; i++){
                size = sizes[i];
                printf("experiment %d : memcpy with buffer size %d\n", i+1, size);
                dest = malloc( size );

                memcpy(cache1, cache2, 0x4000);         // to eliminate cache effect
                t1 = rdtsc();
                slow_memcpy(dest, src, size);           // byte-to-byte memcpy
                t2 = rdtsc();
                printf("ellapsed CPU cycles for slow_memcpy : %llu\n", t2-t1);

                memcpy(cache1, cache2, 0x4000);         // to eliminate cache effect
                t1 = rdtsc();
                fast_memcpy(dest, src, size);           // block-to-block memcpy
                t2 = rdtsc();
                printf("ellapsed CPU cycles for fast_memcpy : %llu\n", t2-t1);
                printf("\n");
        }

        printf("thanks for helping my experiment!\n");
        printf("flag : ----- erased in this source code -----\n");
        return 0;
}
  • movdqa : must be aligned by 128bit
  • movntps : must be aligned by 128bit

n > 128 인 부분에 대하여 n-1 부터 8씩 더하면 한 단계씩 통과하는 것을 확인가능

8 16 32 72 136 264 520 1032 2056 8096

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8 24 56 120 248 504 1016 2040 4088 8174 8 24 56 128|128
8 16 32 72

flag : 1_w4nn4_br34K_th3_m3m0ry_4lignm3nt