linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep stosb` for `memset()`

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:08:05 +0700
From:   Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@...weeb.org>
To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
        Nicholas Rosenberg <inori@...x.org>,
        Michael William Jonathan <moe@...weeb.org>,
        "GNU/Weeb Mailing List" <gwml@...r.gnuweeb.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/5] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Use `rep stosb` for `memset()`

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 8:57 PM Ammar Faizi wrote:
> +".section .text.nolibc_memset\n"
> +".weak memset\n"
> +"memset:\n"
> +       "movq %rsi, %rax\n"
> +       "movq %rdx, %rcx\n"
> +       "movq %rdi, %rdx\n"
> +       "rep stosb\n"
> +       "movq %rdx, %rax\n"
> +       "retq\n"

The first instruction could be:

   movl %esi, %eax

That's smaller. Also, the second argument of memset() is an int
anyway, so there is no need to have a full 64-bit copy of %rsi in
%rax.

-- Viro