linux-kernel - Re: memfill

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:47:51 +0800
From:   zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@...wei.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>, <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        <ngupta@...are.org>, <zhouxiyu@...wei.com>, <weidu.du@...wei.com>,
        <zhangshiming5@...wei.com>, <Mi.Sophia.Wang@...wei.com>,
        <won.ho.park@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: memfill



On 2017/2/6 22:49, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> [adding linux-arch to see if anyone there wants to do an optimised
> version of memfill for their CPU]
>
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:16:44AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> +static inline void zram_fill_page(char *ptr, unsigned long len,
>> +					unsigned long value)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +	unsigned long *page = (unsigned long *)ptr;
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(len, sizeof(unsigned long)));
>> +
>> +	if (likely(value == 0)) {
>> +		memset(ptr, 0, len);
>> +	} else {
>> +		for (i = 0; i < len / sizeof(*page); i++)
>> +			page[i] = value;
>> +	}
>> +}
>
> I would suggest:
>
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMFILL
> /**
>  * memfill - Fill a region of memory with the given value
>  * @s: Pointer to the start of the region.
>  * @v: The word to fill the region with.
>  * @n: The size of the region.
>  *
>  * Differs from memset() in that it fills with an unsigned long instead of
>  * a byte.  The pointer and the size must be aligned to unsigned long.
>  */
> void memfill(unsigned long *s, unsigned long v, size_t n)
> {
> 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(n, sizeof(v)));
>
> 	if (likely(v == 0)) {
> 		memset(s, 0, n);
> 	} else {
> 		while (n) {
> 			*s++ = v;
> 			n -= sizeof(v);
> 		}
> 	}
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(memfill);
> #endif
>
> (I would also suggest this move to lib/string.c and architectures be
> given the opportunity to provide an optimised version of memfill).
>

good idea, i hope kernel could support family functions like memfill/memset_long
in lib. but this is beyond zram scope.
>
> .
>