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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <mingo@elte.hu>, <tglx@linutronix.de>, <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: remove unnecessary spill/reload of rbx from memcpy
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:47:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B8F641.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)

This should slightly improve its performance.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

---
 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.29-rc7/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S	2008-01-24 23:58:37.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.29-rc7-x86_64-memcpy-rbx/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S	2008-12-18 10:58:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ ENDPROC(memcpy_c)
 ENTRY(__memcpy)
 ENTRY(memcpy)
 	CFI_STARTPROC
-	pushq %rbx
-	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8
-	CFI_REL_OFFSET rbx, 0
 	movq %rdi,%rax
 
 	movl %edx,%ecx
@@ -102,11 +99,7 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
 	jnz .Lloop_1
 
 .Lende:
-	popq %rbx
-	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -8
-	CFI_RESTORE rbx
 	ret
-.Lfinal:
 	CFI_ENDPROC
 ENDPROC(memcpy)
 ENDPROC(__memcpy)




             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 10:47 Jan Beulich [this message]
2009-03-12 11:57 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86-64: remove unnecessary spill/reload of rbx from memcpy Jan Beulich

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