linux-kernel - Re: Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86

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Message-Id: <eb34240721c0b92818908672eccecf62@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:50:11 +0200
From:	Joris van Rantwijk <jorispubl@...all.nl>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86_64

On 26 sep 2008, at 20:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Instead of adding a comment like this, we should simply rename it 
> memmove().

Yes. I tried, but it clashed with an existing memmove declaration in 
asm-x86/string_32.h.

What is the accepted solution for this?
Redefining memmove should be allowed, but then it could no longer be a 
static function.
Using the memmove implementation from the main kernel would be painful 
and ugly.
We could also define "__memmove()" plus "#define memmove __memmove", 
which would also be ugly.

> Furthermore, we probably spend enough time copying that using a real 
> memmove() implementation, using string instructions, would be good.

Are string instructions that much faster?
We can also get some speedup by copying ints instead of chars.

Joris.

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