linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
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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alpha treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
arc ARC updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-25 08:21:54 -10:00
arm ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero() 2018-01-21 15:37:56 +00:00
arm64 Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15 2017-11-24 19:44:25 -10:00
blackfin treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
c6x Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
cris pci-v4.15-changes 2017-11-15 15:01:28 -08:00
frv Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
h8300 mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page* 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
hexagon Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
ia64 arch/ia64/include/asm/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -08:00
m32r m32r: fix endianness constraints 2017-11-15 18:21:00 -08:00
m68k m68k/macboing: Fix missed timer callback assignment 2017-11-24 16:19:40 +01:00
metag DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
microblaze DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
mn10300 bug: define the "cut here" string in a single place 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
nios2 DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
openrisc kmemcheck: remove annotations 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
parisc treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
riscv RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
s390 treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
score License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
sh treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2017-11-17 20:21:44 -08:00
tile Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-17 16:56:17 -08:00
um This pull request contains the following core changes: 2017-11-22 20:46:06 -10:00
unicore32 kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:11:54 -08:00
xtensa libnvdimm for 4.15 2017-11-17 09:51:57 -08:00
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Kconfig bpf: Revert bpf_overrid_function() helper changes. 2017-11-11 18:24:55 +09:00