Hi, this regards the function 'csum_partial' that is in the file linux/arch/mips/lib-64/csum_partial.S. Towards the end, we label maybe_end_cruft: andi ta2, a1, 0x3 and then small_memcpy: ... The comments for small_csumcpy says: 'unknown src alignment and < 8 bytes to go'. But as I see the checksum computation for buffers containing fewer than 8 bytes is taken care at the beginning of the 'csum_partial' function. So, what purpose is it serving at the end of 'csum_partial' ? Can someone please clarify ? thank you, Prasad ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* * a0: source address * a1: length of the area to checksum * a2: partial checksum */ #define src a0 #define sum v0 .text .set noreorder /* unknown src alignment and < 8 bytes to go */ small_csumcpy: move a1, ta2 andi ta0, a1, 4 beqz ta0, 1f andi ta0, a1, 2 /* Still a full word to go */ ulw ta1, (src) daddiu src, 4 ADDC(sum, ta1) 1: move ta1, zero beqz ta0, 1f andi ta0, a1, 1 /* Still a halfword to go */ ulhu ta1, (src) daddiu src, 2 1: beqz ta0, 1f sll ta1, ta1, 16 lbu ta2, (src) nop #ifdef __MIPSEB__ sll ta2, ta2, 8 #endif or ta1, ta2 1: ADDC(sum, ta1) /* fold checksum */ sll v1, sum, 16 addu sum, v1 sltu v1, sum, v1 srl sum, sum, 16 addu sum, v1 /* odd buffer alignment? */ beqz t3, 1f nop sll v1, sum, 8 srl sum, sum, 8 or sum, v1 andi sum, 0xffff 1: .set reorder /* Add the passed partial csum. */ ADDC(sum, a2) jr ra .set noreorder /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ .align 5 LEAF(csum_partial) move sum, zero move t3, zero sltiu t8, a1, 0x8 bnez t8, small_csumcpy /* < 8 bytes to copy */ move ta2, a1 beqz a1, out andi t3, src, 0x1 /* odd buffer? */ hword_align: beqz t3, word_align andi t8, src, 0x2 lbu ta0, (src) dsubu a1, a1, 0x1 #ifdef __MIPSEL__ sll ta0, ta0, 8 #endif ADDC(sum, ta0) daddu src, src, 0x1 andi t8, src, 0x2 word_align: beqz t8, dword_align sltiu t8, a1, 56 lhu ta0, (src) dsubu a1, a1, 0x2 ADDC(sum, ta0) sltiu t8, a1, 56 daddu src, src, 0x2 dword_align: bnez t8, do_end_words move t8, a1 andi t8, src, 0x4 beqz t8, qword_align andi t8, src, 0x8 lw ta0, 0x00(src) dsubu a1, a1, 0x4 ADDC(sum, ta0) daddu src, src, 0x4 andi t8, src, 0x8 qword_align: beqz t8, oword_align andi t8, src, 0x10 lw ta0, 0x00(src) lw ta1, 0x04(src) dsubu a1, a1, 0x8 ADDC(sum, ta0) ADDC(sum, ta1) daddu src, src, 0x8 andi t8, src, 0x10 oword_align: beqz t8, begin_movement dsrl t8, a1, 0x7 lw ta3, 0x08(src) lw t0, 0x0c(src) lw ta0, 0x00(src) lw ta1, 0x04(src) ADDC(sum, ta3) ADDC(sum, t0) ADDC(sum, ta0) ADDC(sum, ta1) dsubu a1, a1, 0x10 daddu src, src, 0x10 dsrl t8, a1, 0x7 begin_movement: beqz t8, 1f andi ta2, a1, 0x40 move_128bytes: CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x00, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x20, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x40, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x60, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) dsubu t8, t8, 0x01 bnez t8, move_128bytes daddu src, src, 0x80 1: beqz ta2, 1f andi ta2, a1, 0x20 move_64bytes: CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x00, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x20, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) daddu src, src, 0x40 1: beqz ta2, do_end_words andi t8, a1, 0x1c move_32bytes: CSUM_BIGCHUNK(src, 0x00, sum, ta0, ta1, ta3, t0) andi t8, a1, 0x1c daddu src, src, 0x20 do_end_words: beqz t8, maybe_end_cruft dsrl t8, t8, 0x2 end_words: lw ta0, (src) dsubu t8, t8, 0x1 ADDC(sum, ta0) bnez t8, end_words daddu src, src, 0x4 maybe_end_cruft: andi ta2, a1, 0x3 small_memcpy: j small_csumcpy; move a1, ta2 /* XXX ??? */ beqz t2, out move a1, ta2 end_bytes: lb ta0, (src) dsubu a1, a1, 0x1 bnez a2, end_bytes daddu src, src, 0x1 out: jr ra move v0, sum END(csum_partial)