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Ma Ling 269833bd5a x86/asm: Clean up copy_page_*() comments and code
Modern CPUs use fast-string instruction to accelerate copy
performance, by combining data into 128 bit chunks.

Modify comments and coding style to match it.

Signed-off-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Cc: iant@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350503565-19167-1-git-send-email-ling.ma@intel.com
[ Cleaned up the clean up. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 12:42:47 +02:00
Jan Beulich 4269329090 x86-64: Slightly shorten copy_page()
%r13 got saved and restored without ever getting touched, so
there's no need to do so.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F05D9F9020000780006AA0D@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-06 12:25:37 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski 59e97e4d6f x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
This save a few bytes on x86-64 and means that future patches can
apply alternatives to unrelocated code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff64a6b9a1a3860ca4a7b8b6dc7b4754f9491cd7.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-13 11:22:56 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 83a7a2ad2a x86, alternatives: Use 16-bit numbers for cpufeature index
We already have cpufeature indicies above 255, so use a 16-bit number
for the alternatives index.  This consumes a padding field and so
doesn't add any size, but it means that abusing the padding field to
create assembly errors on overflow no longer works.  We can retain the
test simply by redirecting it to the .discard section, however.

[ v3: updated to include open-coded locations ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-f88731e3068f9d1392ba71cc9f50f035d26a0d4f@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-07-07 10:36:28 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 185f3d3890 x86_64: move lib
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:17:08 +02:00