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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2011-07-13	x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative	Andy Lutomirski	1	-6/+5
	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>
2011-05-17	x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB	Fenghua Yu	1	-1/+28
	Support memmove() by enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memmove() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function. The patch doesn't change the backward memmove case to use enhanced rep movsb. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-9-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-25	x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug	Fenghua Yu	1	-0/+197
	memmove_64.c only implements memmove() function which is completely written in inline assembly code. Therefore it doesn't make sense to keep the assembly code in .c file. Currently memmove() doesn't store return value to rax. This may cause issue if caller uses the return value. The patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1295314755-6625-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>