We have a couple of inline assemblies like memchr() and strlen() that
read from memory, but tell the compiler only they need the addresses
of the strings they access.
This allows the compiler to omit the initialization of such strings
and therefore generate broken code. Add the missing memory barrier to
all string related inline assemblies to fix this potential issue. It
looks like the compiler currently does not generate broken code due to
these bugs.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Provide an s390 specific memmove implementation which is faster than
the generic implementation which copies byte-wise.
For non-destructive (as defined by the mvc instruction) memmove
operations the following table compares the old default implementation
versus the new s390 specific implementation:
size old new
1 1ns 8ns
2 2ns 8ns
4 4ns 8ns
8 7ns 8ns
16 17ns 8ns
32 35ns 8ns
64 65ns 9ns
128 146ns 10ns
256 298ns 11ns
512 537ns 11ns
1024 1193ns 19ns
2048 2405ns 36ns
So only for very small sizes the old implementation is faster. For
overlapping memmoves, where the mvc instruction can't be used, the new
implementation is as slow as the old one.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Now that all in-tree users of strnicmp have been converted to
strncasecmp, the wrapper can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Our memcpy and memcmp variants were implemented by calling the corresponding
gcc builtin variants.
However gcc is free to replace a call to __builtin_memcmp with a call to memcmp
which, when called, will result in an endless recursion within memcmp.
So let's provide asm variants and also fix the variants that are used for
uncompressing the kernel image.
In addition remove all other occurences of builtin function calls.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.
Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Use builtin variants if gcc 4 or newer is used to compile the kernel.
Generates better code than the asm variants.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
In introducing a trivial "strstarts()" function in linux/string.h, we
hit the following error on s390:
In file included from include/linux/bitmap.h:8,
from include/linux/cpumask.h:142,
from include/linux/smp.h:12,
from /home/rusty/devel/kernel/patches/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h:14,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:88,
from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
from include/linux/time.h:8,
from include/linux/stat.h:60,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from arch/s390/lib/string.c:13:
include/linux/string.h: In function 'strstarts':
include/linux/string.h:124: error: implicit declaration of function 'strlen'
include/linux/string.h:124: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strlen'
Because when including asm/string.h from arch/s390/lib/string.c we
don't declare the string ops we are about to define, and
linux/string.h barfs.
The fix is to declare them in this IN_ARCH_STRING_C case, but in
general I wonder if there's a neater fix.
Reported-by: linux-next
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
