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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-08 16:45:15 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-08 17:34:52 -0700 |
| commit | 36d3793c947f1ef7ba3d24eeeddc1be41adc5ab4 (patch) | |
| tree | bf5987e4caacb7aab5a78ca683a3179bd8eba717 /arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | |
| parent | 97541912785369925723b6255438ad9fce2ddf04 (diff) | |
x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
In the pre-decompression code, use the appropriate largest possible
rep movs and rep stos to move code and clear bss, respectively. For
reverse copy, do note that the initial values are supposed to be the
address of the first (highest) copy datum, not one byte beyond the end
of the buffer.
rep strings are not necessarily the fastest way to perform these
operations on all current processors, but are likely to be in the
future, and perhaps more importantly, we want to encourage the
architecturally right thing to do here.
This also fixes a couple of trivial inefficiencies on 64 bits.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, increase code similarity ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 26 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S index a0b18426069a..723c72dfd7bc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S @@ -260,15 +260,15 @@ ENTRY(startup_64) * Copy the compressed kernel to the end of our buffer * where decompression in place becomes safe. */ - leaq _bss(%rip), %r8 - leaq _bss(%rbx), %r9 + pushq %rsi + leaq (_bss-8)(%rip), %rsi + leaq (_bss-8)(%rbx), %rdi movq $_bss /* - $startup_32 */, %rcx -1: subq $8, %r8 - subq $8, %r9 - movq 0(%r8), %rax - movq %rax, 0(%r9) - subq $8, %rcx - jnz 1b + shrq $3, %rcx + std + rep movsq + cld + popq %rsi /* * Jump to the relocated address. @@ -282,12 +282,12 @@ relocated: /* * Clear BSS (stack is currently empty) */ - xorq %rax, %rax - leaq _bss(%rbx), %rdi - leaq _ebss(%rbx), %rcx + xorl %eax, %eax + leaq _bss(%rip), %rdi + leaq _ebss(%rip), %rcx subq %rdi, %rcx - cld - rep stosb + shrq $3, %rcx + rep stosq /* * Do the decompression, and jump to the new kernel.. |