Re: Question Regarding ERMS memcpy

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 08:35:32 EST


On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:01:10AM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Well honestly my issue was solved by fixing my kernel config. I have no
> idea why I had optimize for size in there in the first place.

I still think that we should address the iomem memcpy Linus mentioned.
So how about this partial revert. I've made 32-bit use the same special
__memcpy() version.

Hmmm?

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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
index 7afb0e2f07f4..9e378a10796d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ extern void set_iounmap_nonlazy(void);
#ifdef __KERNEL__

#include <asm-generic/iomap.h>
+#include <asm/string.h>

/*
* Convert a virtual cached pointer to an uncached pointer
@@ -227,12 +228,13 @@ memset_io(volatile void __iomem *addr, unsigned char val, size_t count)
* @src: The (I/O memory) source for the data
* @count: The number of bytes to copy
*
- * Copy a block of data from I/O memory.
+ * Copy a block of data from I/O memory. IO memory is different from
+ * cached memory so we use special memcpy version.
*/
static inline void
memcpy_fromio(void *dst, const volatile void __iomem *src, size_t count)
{
- memcpy(dst, (const void __force *)src, count);
+ __inline_memcpy(dst, (const void __force *)src, count);
}

/**
@@ -241,12 +243,13 @@ memcpy_fromio(void *dst, const volatile void __iomem *src, size_t count)
* @src: The (RAM) source for the data
* @count: The number of bytes to copy
*
- * Copy a block of data to I/O memory.
+ * Copy a block of data to I/O memory. IO memory is different from
+ * cached memory so we use special memcpy version.
*/
static inline void
memcpy_toio(volatile void __iomem *dst, const void *src, size_t count)
{
- memcpy((void __force *)dst, src, count);
+ __inline_memcpy((void __force *)dst, src, count);
}

/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h
index 3d3e8353ee5c..556fa4a975ff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ extern char *strchr(const char *s, int c);
#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
extern size_t strlen(const char *s);

+#define __inline_memcpy __memcpy
static __always_inline void *__memcpy(void *to, const void *from, size_t n)
{
int d0, d1, d2;

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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