linux/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
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
#
# linux/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
#
# Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Russell King
#
lib-y := backtrace.o changebit.o csumipv6.o csumpartial.o \
csumpartialcopy.o csumpartialcopyuser.o clearbit.o \
delay.o delay-loop.o findbit.o memchr.o memcpy.o \
memmove.o memset.o setbit.o \
strchr.o strrchr.o \
testchangebit.o testclearbit.o testsetbit.o \
ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o muldi3.o \
ucmpdi2.o lib1funcs.o div64.o \
io-readsb.o io-writesb.o io-readsl.o io-writesl.o \
call_with_stack.o bswapsdi2.o
mmu-y := clear_user.o copy_page.o getuser.o putuser.o \
copy_from_user.o copy_to_user.o
# using lib_ here won't override already available weak symbols
obj-$(CONFIG_UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY) += uaccess_with_memcpy.o
lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += $(mmu-y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_32v3),y)
lib-y += io-readsw-armv3.o io-writesw-armv3.o
else
lib-y += io-readsw-armv4.o io-writesw-armv4.o
endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_RPC),y)
lib-y += ecard.o io-acorn.o floppydma.o
AFLAGS_delay-loop.o += -march=armv4
endif
$(obj)/csumpartialcopy.o: $(obj)/csumpartialcopygeneric.S
$(obj)/csumpartialcopyuser.o: $(obj)/csumpartialcopygeneric.S
ifeq ($(CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON),y)
NEON_FLAGS := -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon
CFLAGS_xor-neon.o += $(NEON_FLAGS)
obj-$(CONFIG_XOR_BLOCKS) += xor-neon.o
endif