On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:43 AM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me you could improve our memmove?
Also, if we want to define another Kconfig variable this is pretty easy to fix.
There is CONFIG_CPU_DMP_VORTEX86EX which might be useful.
Maybe Andrew can try something like this:
diff --git a/src/arch/x86/lib/Makefile.inc b/src/arch/x86/lib/Makefile.inc index 8588c76..b529d35 100644 --- a/src/arch/x86/lib/Makefile.inc +++ b/src/arch/x86/lib/Makefile.inc @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ ramstage-y += exception.c ramstage-$(CONFIG_IOAPIC) += ioapic.c ramstage-y += memset.c ramstage-y += memcpy.c -ramstage-y += memmove.c ramstage-y += ebda.c ramstage-y += rom_media.c ramstage-$(CONFIG_COOP_MULTITASKING) += thread.c @@ -16,16 +15,26 @@ romstage-$(CONFIG_EARLY_CONSOLE) += romstage_console.c romstage-y += cbfs_and_run.c romstage-y += memset.c romstage-y += memcpy.c -romstage-y += memmove.c romstage-y += rom_media.c
smm-y += memset.c smm-y += memcpy.c -smm-y += memmove.c smm-y += rom_media.c
rmodules-y += memset.c rmodules-y += memcpy.c rmodules-y += memmove.c
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_DMP_VORTEX86EX),y) +# Old memmove implementation from Linux always use REP MOVSL +# which is much faster on some CPUs. +ramstage-y += memmove_old.c +romstage-y += memmove_old.c +smm-y += memmove_old.c +else +ramstage-y += memmove.c +romstage-y += memmove.c +smm-y += memmove.c +endif +