[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: dcache: select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS for little-endian ARMv6+ CPUs

From: Will Deacon
Date: Fri Jun 15 2012 - 12:22:55 EST


DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS uses the word-at-a-time API for optimised string
comparisons in the vfs layer.

This patch implements support for load_unaligned_zeropad for ARM CPUs
with native support for unaligned memory accesses (v6+) when running
little-endian.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 77a2fad..bba8a56 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ config ARM
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if SMP
select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
+ select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7) && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
help
The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
index 74b2d45..4d52f92 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -48,6 +48,47 @@ static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask)
return ret;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+
+#define zero_bytemask(mask) (mask)
+
+/*
+ * Load an unaligned word from kernel space.
+ *
+ * In the (very unlikely) case of the word being a page-crosser
+ * and the next page not being mapped, take the exception and
+ * return zeroes in the non-existing part.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr)
+{
+ unsigned long ret, offset;
+
+ /* Load word from unaligned pointer addr */
+ asm(
+ "1: ldr %0, [%2]\n"
+ "2:\n"
+ " .pushsection .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
+ " .align 2\n"
+ "3: and %1, %2, #0x3\n"
+ " bic %2, %2, #0x3\n"
+ " ldr %0, [%2]\n"
+ " lsl %1, %1, #0x3\n"
+ " lsr %0, %0, %1\n"
+ " b 2b\n"
+ " .popsection\n"
+ " .pushsection __ex_table,\"a\"\n"
+ " .align 3\n"
+ " .long 1b, 3b\n"
+ " .popsection"
+ : "=&r" (ret), "=&r" (offset)
+ : "r" (addr), "Qo" (*(unsigned long *)addr));
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+
+#endif /* DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS */
+
#else /* __ARMEB__ */
#include <asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h>
#endif
--
1.7.4.1

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