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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:35:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010220183513.B5102@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A846C84.109F1D7D@colorfullife.com> <200102092240.OAA15902@penguin.transmeta.com> <3A8B08C7.BD79E3B4@colorfullife.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A8B08C7.BD79E3B4@colorfullife.com>; from Manfred Spraul on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:37:59PM +0100

Hi!

> --- 2.4/mm/filemap.c	Wed Feb 14 10:51:42 2001
> +++ build-2.4/mm/filemap.c	Wed Feb 14 22:11:44 2001
> @@ -1248,6 +1248,20 @@
>  		size = count;
>  
>  	kaddr = kmap(page);
> +	if (size > 128) {
> +		int i;
> +		__asm__ __volatile__(
> +			"mov %1, %0\n\t"
> +			: "=r" (i)
> +			: "r" (kaddr+offset)); /* load tlb entry */
> +		for(i=0;i<size;i+=64) {
> +			__asm__ __volatile__(
> +				"prefetchnta (%1, %0)\n\t"
> +				"prefetchnta 32(%1, %0)\n\t"
> +				: /* no output */
> +				: "r" (i), "r" (kaddr+offset));
> +		}
> +	}
>  	left = __copy_to_user(desc->buf, kaddr + offset, size);
>  	kunmap(page);

This seems bogus -- you need to handle faults --
i.e. __prefetchnta_to_user() ;-).
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-20 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-09 22:17 [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page() Manfred Spraul
2001-02-09 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-09 23:03   ` Doug Ledford
2001-02-10  9:09     ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-10 17:18       ` Doug Ledford
2001-02-10 18:00         ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-10 18:18           ` Manfred Spraul
     [not found] ` <200102092240.OAA15902@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-02-14 22:37   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-16 15:27     ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-20 17:35     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-02-20 20:49       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-20 20:52         ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-20 21:08           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-20 21:16           ` Manfred Spraul

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