__memcpy_fromio and __memcpy_toio functions do not deal well with
harmonically unaligned addresses unless they can ultimately be
copied as quads (u64) to and from the destination. Without a
harmonically aligned relationship, they perform byte operations
over the entire buffer.
Dropped the fragment that tried to align on the normal memory,
placing a priority on using quad alignment on the io-side.
Removed the volatile on the source for __memcpy_toio as it is
unnecessary.
This change was motivated by performance issues in the pstore driver.
On a test platform, measuring probe time for pstore, console buffer
size of 1/4MB and pmsg of 1/2MB, was in the 90-107ms region. Change
managed to reduce it to 10-25ms, an improvement in boot time.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <saly...@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <an...@enomsg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <an...@enomsg.org>
Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: robin.mur...@arm.com
v2:
- simplify, do not try so hard, or through steps, to align on the
normal memory side, as it was a diminishing return. Dealing with
any pathological short cases was unnecessary since there does not
appear to be any.
- drop similar __memset_io changes completely.
v3:
- do not replace 8 with sizeof(u64)
---
arch/arm64/kernel/io.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/io.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/io.c
index 354be2a872ae..79b17384effa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/io.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/io.c
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@
*/
void __memcpy_fromio(void *to, const volatile void __iomem *from, size_t count)
{
- while (count && (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)from, 8) ||
- !IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)to, 8))) {
+ while (count && !IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)from, 8)) {
*(u8 *)to = __raw_readb(from);
from++;
to++;
@@ -54,23 +53,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memcpy_fromio);
*/
void __memcpy_toio(volatile void __iomem *to, const void *from, size_t count)
{
- while (count && (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)to, 8) ||
- !IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)from, 8))) {
- __raw_writeb(*(volatile u8 *)from, to);
+ while (count && !IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)to, 8)) {
+ __raw_writeb(*(u8 *)from, to);
from++;
to++;
count--;
}
while (count >= 8) {
- __raw_writeq(*(volatile u64 *)from, to);
+ __raw_writeq(*(u64 *)from, to);
from += 8;
to += 8;
count -= 8;
}
while (count) {
- __raw_writeb(*(volatile u8 *)from, to);
+ __raw_writeb(*(u8 *)from, to);
from++;
to++;
count--;
--
2.15.0.rc0.271.g36b669edcc-goog
