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>
This commit is contained in:
Nicolas Pitre
2018-01-19 18:17:46 +01:00
committed by Russell King
parent ec80eb4671
commit ff5fdafc9e
7 changed files with 5 additions and 161 deletions
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@@ -39,18 +39,4 @@ static inline void *memset64(uint64_t *p, uint64_t v, __kernel_size_t n)
return __memset64(p, v, n * 8, v >> 32);
}
extern void __memzero(void *ptr, __kernel_size_t n);
#define memset(p,v,n) \
({ \
void *__p = (p); size_t __n = n; \
if ((__n) != 0) { \
if (__builtin_constant_p((v)) && (v) == 0) \
__memzero((__p),(__n)); \
else \
memset((__p),(v),(__n)); \
} \
(__p); \
})
#endif