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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:20:22 +0200
From:	Bruce Merry <bmerry@....ac.za>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] perf bench: fix order of arguments to memcpy_alloc_mem

This was causing the destination instead of the source to be filled.
As a result, the source was typically all mapped to one zero page,
and hence very cacheable.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Merry <bmerry@....ac.za>
---
 tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 6c14afe..db1d3a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static u64 do_memcpy_cycle(const struct routine *r, size_t len, bool prefault)
 	memcpy_t fn = r->fn.memcpy;
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy_alloc_mem(&src, &dst, len);
+	memcpy_alloc_mem(&dst, &src, len);
 
 	if (prefault)
 		fn(dst, src, len);
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static double do_memcpy_gettimeofday(const struct routine *r, size_t len,
 	void *src = NULL, *dst = NULL;
 	int i;
 
-	memcpy_alloc_mem(&src, &dst, len);
+	memcpy_alloc_mem(&dst, &src, len);
 
 	if (prefault)
 		fn(dst, src, len);
-- 
1.9.1


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