linux/arch/arm/include/asm/string.h
Nicolas Pitre ff5fdafc9e ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()
The __memzero assembly code is almost identical to memset's except for
two orr instructions. The runtime performance of __memset(p, n) and
memset(p, 0, n) is accordingly almost identical.

However, the memset() macro used to guard against a zero length and to
call __memzero at compile time when the fill value is a constant zero
interferes with compiler optimizations.

Arnd found tha the test against a zero length brings up some new
warnings with gcc v8:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82103

And successively rremoving the test against a zero length and the call
to __memzero optimization produces the following kernel sizes for
defconfig with gcc 6:

    text     data     bss       dec       hex  filename
12248142  6278960  413588  18940690   1210312  vmlinux.orig
12244474  6278960  413588  18937022   120f4be  vmlinux.no_zero_test
12239160  6278960  413588  18931708   120dffc  vmlinux.no_memzero

So it is probably not worth keeping __memzero around given that the
compiler can do a better job at inlining trivial memset(p,0,n) on its
own. And the memset code already handles a zero length just fine.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
2018-01-21 15:37:56 +00:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef __ASM_ARM_STRING_H
#define __ASM_ARM_STRING_H
/*
* We don't do inline string functions, since the
* optimised inline asm versions are not small.
*/
#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
extern char * strrchr(const char * s, int c);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHR
extern char * strchr(const char * s, int c);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
extern void * memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMMOVE
extern void * memmove(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCHR
extern void * memchr(const void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
extern void * memset(void *, int, __kernel_size_t);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET32
extern void *__memset32(uint32_t *, uint32_t v, __kernel_size_t);
static inline void *memset32(uint32_t *p, uint32_t v, __kernel_size_t n)
{
return __memset32(p, v, n * 4);
}
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET64
extern void *__memset64(uint64_t *, uint32_t low, __kernel_size_t, uint32_t hi);
static inline void *memset64(uint64_t *p, uint64_t v, __kernel_size_t n)
{
return __memset64(p, v, n * 8, v >> 32);
}
#endif