On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:08 PM Guo Ren <ren_guo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/csky/abiv1/memset.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +// Copyright (C) 2018 Hangzhou C-SKY Microsystems co.,ltd.
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +
> > +void *memset(void *dest, int c, size_t l)
> > +{
> > + char *d = dest;
> > + int ch = c;
> > + int tmp;
> > +
> > + if ((long)d & 0x3)
> > + while (l--) *d++ = ch;
while ((uintptr_t)d & 0x3) && l--)
*d++ =ch;
and remove the else below?
> > + else {
> > + ch &= 0xff;
> > + tmp = (ch | ch << 8 | ch << 16 | ch << 24);
> > +
> > + while (l >= 16) {
> > + *(((long *)d)) = tmp;
> > + *(((long *)d)+1) = tmp;
> > + *(((long *)d)+2) = tmp;
> > + *(((long *)d)+3) = tmp;
s/long/u32/
> > + l -= 16;
> > + d += 16;
> > + }
> > +
> > + while (l > 3) {
> > + *(((long *)d)) = tmp;
> > + d = d + 4;
> > + l -= 4;
> > + }
> > +
> > + while (l) {
> > + *d++ = ch;
> > + l--;
> > + }
> > + }
> > + return dest;
> > +}
>
> I see that we have a trivial memset() implementation in lib/string.c, but yours
> seems to be better optimized. Where did you get it from? Is this a version
> that works particularly well on C-Sky, or is this a generic optimized memset
> that others could use as well? In the latter case, we could add it to
> lib/string.c and let architectures select it in place of the triivial version.
Sounds good to me, after removing the 32-bit-isms.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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