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arm64: Avoid aligning normal memory pointers in __memcpy_{to,from}io
authorMark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:47:14 +0000 (07:47 -0700)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:23:07 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
commit9ca255bf041ddc7698b6906dbd846c0ba64b1fe1
tree868d2b06309b5441a2174dc5e124f75c63cda3a1
parent1e0c661f05ba0a3db52ed9debbe2b2e1d74aa0a4
arm64: Avoid aligning normal memory pointers in __memcpy_{to,from}io

__memcpy_{to,from}io fall back to byte-at-a-time copying if both the
source and destination pointers are not 8-byte aligned. Since one of the
pointers always points at normal memory, this is unnecessary and
detrimental to performance, so only do byte copying until we hit an 8-byte
boundary for the device pointer.

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.

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/io.c