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PowerPC: Align power7 memcpy using VSX to quadword


This patch changes power7 memcpy to use VSX instructions only when
memory is aligned to quardword (16b).  It is to avoid unaligned kernel
traps on non-cacheable memory (for instance, memory-mapped I/O).

Checked on ppc64be and ppc32be.

--

2014-06-13  Adhemerval Zanella  <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcpy.S: Align VSX copies to 16B
	to avoid alignment traps in non-cacheable memory.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcpy.S: Likewise.

---

diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcpy.S b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcpy.S
index 52c2a6b..e540fea 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcpy.S
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power7/memcpy.S
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ EALIGN (memcpy, 5, 0)
 	ble	cr1, L(copy_LT_32)  /* If move < 32 bytes use short move
 				    code.  */
 
-	andi.   11,3,7	      /* Check alignment of DST.  */
-	clrlwi  10,4,29	      /* Check alignment of SRC.  */
+	andi.   11,3,15	      /* Check alignment of DST.  */
+	clrlwi  10,4,28	      /* Check alignment of SRC.  */
 	cmplw   cr6,10,11     /* SRC and DST alignments match?  */
 	mr	12,4
 	mr	31,5
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcpy.S b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcpy.S
index bbfd381..18467f6 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcpy.S
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/memcpy.S
@@ -36,16 +36,11 @@ EALIGN (memcpy, 5, 0)
 	ble	cr1, L(copy_LT_32)  /* If move < 32 bytes use short move
 				    code.  */
 
-#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
-/* In little-endian mode, power7 takes an alignment trap on any lxvd2x
-   or stxvd2x crossing a 32-byte boundary, so ensure the aligned_copy
-   loop is only used for quadword aligned copies.  */
+/* Align copies using VSX instructions to quadword. It is to avoid alignment
+   traps when memcpy is used on non-cacheable memory (for instance, memory
+   mapped I/O).  */
 	andi.	10,3,15
 	clrldi	11,4,60
-#else
-	andi.	10,3,7		/* Check alignment of DST.  */
-	clrldi	11,4,61		/* Check alignment of SRC.  */
-#endif
 	cmpld	cr6,10,11	/* SRC and DST alignments match?  */
 
 	mr	dst,3
@@ -53,11 +48,7 @@ EALIGN (memcpy, 5, 0)
 	beq	L(aligned_copy)
 
 	mtocrf	0x01,0
-#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
 	clrldi	0,0,60
-#else
-	clrldi	0,0,61
-#endif
 
 /* Get the DST and SRC aligned to 8 bytes (16 for little-endian).  */
 1:
@@ -79,14 +70,12 @@ EALIGN (memcpy, 5, 0)
 	stw	6,0(dst)
 	addi	dst,dst,4
 8:
-#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
 	bf	28,16f
 	ld	6,0(src)
 	addi	src,src,8
 	std	6,0(dst)
 	addi	dst,dst,8
 16:
-#endif
 	subf	cnt,0,cnt
 
 /* Main aligned copy loop. Copies 128 bytes at a time. */
@@ -298,9 +287,7 @@ L(copy_LE_8):
 	.align	4
 L(copy_GE_32_unaligned):
 	clrldi	0,0,60	      /* Number of bytes until the 1st dst quadword.  */
-#ifndef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
 	andi.	10,3,15	      /* Check alignment of DST (against quadwords).  */
-#endif
 	srdi	9,cnt,4	      /* Number of full quadwords remaining.  */
 
 	beq	L(copy_GE_32_unaligned_cont)


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