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Jan Beulich
7269e8812a x86-64: Modify memcpy()/memset() alternatives mechanism
In order to avoid unnecessary chains of branches, rather than
implementing memcpy()/memset()'s access to their alternative
implementations via a jump, patch the (larger) original function
directly.

The memcpy() part of this is slightly subtle: while alternative
instruction patching does itself use memcpy(), with the
replacement block being less than 64-bytes in size the main loop
of the original function doesn't get used for copying memcpy_c()
over memcpy(), and hence we can safely write over its beginning.

Also note that the CFI annotations are fine for both variants of
each of the functions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2BB8D30200007800026AF2@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30 11:57:32 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
185f3d3890 x86_64: move lib
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:08 +02:00
Renamed from arch/x86_64/lib/memset_64.S (Browse further)