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>
Tento commit je obsažen v:
Nicolas Pitre
2018-01-19 18:17:46 +01:00
odevzdal Russell King
rodič ec80eb4671
revize ff5fdafc9e
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lib-y := backtrace.o changebit.o csumipv6.o csumpartial.o \
csumpartialcopy.o csumpartialcopyuser.o clearbit.o \
delay.o delay-loop.o findbit.o memchr.o memcpy.o \
memmove.o memset.o memzero.o setbit.o \
memmove.o memset.o setbit.o \
strchr.o strrchr.o \
testchangebit.o testclearbit.o testsetbit.o \
ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o muldi3.o \