[PATCH] arm64: clear_page: use stnp non-temporal instruction for performance optimizing

Guanghui Feng guanghuifeng at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Nov 16 07:08:14 PST 2021


When clear page mem, there is no need to alloc cache for storing these
mem value. And the copy_page.S have used stnp instruction for optimizing.
So I rewrite the clear_page.S with stnp. At the same time, I have tested it
with stnp instruction which will get about twice the performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Guanghui Feng <guanghuifeng at linux.alibaba.com>
---
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
index b84b179..e9dc2d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S
@@ -15,13 +15,18 @@
  *	x0 - dest
  */
 SYM_FUNC_START_PI(clear_page)
-	mrs	x1, dczid_el0
-	and	w1, w1, #0xf
-	mov	x2, #4
-	lsl	x1, x2, x1
-
-1:	dc	zva, x0
-	add	x0, x0, x1
+	mov	x1, #0
+	mov	x2, #0
+1:
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #16]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #32]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #48]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #64]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #80]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #96]
+	stnp	x1, x2, [x0, #112]
+	add	x0, x0, #128
 	tst	x0, #(PAGE_SIZE - 1)
 	b.ne	1b
 	ret
-- 
1.8.3.1




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