linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Partially revert "powerpc: Remove duplicate cacheable

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 19:49:25 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
CC:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>,
	Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@...ing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Partially revert "powerpc: Remove duplicate
 cacheable_memcpy/memzero functions"

On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 15:32 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> This partially reverts
> commit 'powerpc: Remove duplicate cacheable_memcpy/memzero functions
> ("f909a35bdfb7cb350d078a2cf888162eeb20381c")'

I don't have that SHA.  Do you mean
b05ae4ee602b7dc90771408ccf0972e1b3801a35?

> Functions cacheable_memcpy/memzero are more efficient than
> memcpy/memset as they use the dcbz instruction which avoids refill
> of the cacheline with the data that we will overwrite.

I don't see anything in this patchset that addresses the "NOTE: The old
routines are just flat buggy on kernels that support hardware with
different cacheline sizes" comment.

-Scott


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