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author | Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> | 2017-09-08 16:13:48 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -0700 |
commit | 3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae (patch) | |
tree | dde0523225ee26548a2b59c337930088ed7033c7 /lib | |
parent | 604df322363e5770735df85368f83cac4a955a24 (diff) | |
download | lwn-3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae.tar.gz lwn-3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae.zip |
lib/string.c: add multibyte memset functions
Patch series "Multibyte memset variations", v4.
A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area of
memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte. I first
noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an
'unsigned long' value. There turn out to be quite a few places in the
kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather than a
loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both. The
optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance by
about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l().
Most of the extra lines of code come from the three testcases I added.
This patch (of 8):
memset16(), memset32() and memset64() are like memset(), but allow the
caller to fill the destination with a value larger than a single byte.
memset_l() and memset_p() allow the caller to use unsigned long and
pointer values respectively.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 66 |
1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index ebbb99c775bd..198148bb61fd 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -723,6 +723,72 @@ void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(memzero_explicit); +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET16 +/** + * memset16() - Fill a memory area with a uint16_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint16_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint16_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset16(uint16_t *s, uint16_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint16_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset16); +#endif + +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET32 +/** + * memset32() - Fill a memory area with a uint32_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint32_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint32_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset32(uint32_t *s, uint32_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint32_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset32); +#endif + +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET64 +/** + * memset64() - Fill a memory area with a uint64_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint64_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint64_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset64(uint64_t *s, uint64_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint64_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset64); +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY /** * memcpy - Copy one area of memory to another |