GCC provides reasonable memset/memcpy functions itself, with __builtin_memset
and __builtin_memcpy. For the "unknown" cases, it'll fall back to our
current existing functions, but for fixed size versions it'll inline
something smart. Quite often that will be the same as we have now,
but sometimes it can do something smarter (for example, if the code
then sets the first member of a struct, it can do a shorter memset).
In addition, and this is more important, gcc knows which registers and
such are not clobbered (while for our asm version it pretty much
acts like a compiler barrier), so for various cases it can avoid reloading
values.
The effect on codesize is shown below on my typical laptop .config:
text data bss dec hex filename
5605675 2041100 6525148 14171923 d83f13 vmlinux.before
5595849 2041668 6525148 14162665 d81ae9 vmlinux.after
Due to some not-so-good behavior in the gcc 3.x series, this change
is only done for GCC 4.x and above.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090928142122.6fc57e9c@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Tan Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253137123-18047-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The hooks that we modify are:
- Page fault handler (to handle kmemcheck faults)
- Debug exception handler (to hide pages after single-stepping
the instruction that caused the page fault)
Also redefine memset() to use the optimized version if kmemcheck is
enabled.
(Thanks to Pekka Enberg for minimizing the impact on the page fault
handler.)
As kmemcheck doesn't handle MMX/SSE instructions (yet), we also disable
the optimized xor code, and rely instead on the generic C implementation
in order to avoid false-positive warnings.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
[whitespace fixlet]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Arjan van de Ven
Felipe Contreras
Vegard Nossum
H. Peter Anvin
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