From 3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:13:48 -0700 Subject: lib/string.c: add multibyte memset functions Patch series "Multibyte memset variations", v4. A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area of memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte. I first noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an 'unsigned long' value. There turn out to be quite a few places in the kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather than a loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both. The optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance by about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l(). Most of the extra lines of code come from the three testcases I added. This patch (of 8): memset16(), memset32() and memset64() are like memset(), but allow the caller to fill the destination with a value larger than a single byte. memset_l() and memset_p() allow the caller to use unsigned long and pointer values respectively. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: David Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/string.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index ebbb99c775bd..198148bb61fd 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -723,6 +723,72 @@ void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(memzero_explicit); +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET16 +/** + * memset16() - Fill a memory area with a uint16_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint16_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint16_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset16(uint16_t *s, uint16_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint16_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset16); +#endif + +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET32 +/** + * memset32() - Fill a memory area with a uint32_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint32_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint32_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset32(uint32_t *s, uint32_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint32_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset32); +#endif + +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET64 +/** + * memset64() - Fill a memory area with a uint64_t + * @s: Pointer to the start of the area. + * @v: The value to fill the area with + * @count: The number of values to store + * + * Differs from memset() in that it fills with a uint64_t instead + * of a byte. Remember that @count is the number of uint64_ts to + * store, not the number of bytes. + */ +void *memset64(uint64_t *s, uint64_t v, size_t count) +{ + uint64_t *xs = s; + + while (count--) + *xs++ = v; + return s; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset64); +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY /** * memcpy - Copy one area of memory to another -- cgit