Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] arm64/lib: copy_page: avoid x18 register in assembler code

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 2:41 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
> > index bbb8562396af..8b562264c165 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S
> > @@ -34,45 +34,45 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
> >       ldp     x14, x15, [x1, #96]
> >       ldp     x16, x17, [x1, #112]
> >
> > -     mov     x18, #(PAGE_SIZE - 128)
> > +     add     x0, x0, #256
> >       add     x1, x1, #128
> >  1:
> > -     subs    x18, x18, #128
> > +     tst     x0, #(PAGE_SIZE - 1)
> >
> >  alternative_if ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH
> >       prfm    pldl1strm, [x1, #384]
> >  alternative_else_nop_endif
> >
> > -     stnp    x2, x3, [x0]
> > +     stnp    x2, x3, [x0, #-256]
> >       ldp     x2, x3, [x1]
> > -     stnp    x4, x5, [x0, #16]
> > +     stnp    x4, x5, [x0, #-240]
> >       ldp     x4, x5, [x1, #16]
>
> For legibility, could we make the offset and bias explicit in the STNPs
> so that these line up? e.g.
>
>         stnp    x4, x5, [x0, #16 - 256]
>         ldp     x4, x5, [x1, #16]
>
> ... that'd make it much easier to see by eye that this is sound, much as
> I trust my mental arithmetic. ;)

Sure, that makes sense. I'll change this in v3.

Sami