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From:   Akira Tsukamoto <akira.tsukamoto@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] __asm_copy_to-from_user: Reduce more byte_copy
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Date:   Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:50:52 +0900
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Adding none unrolling word_copy, which is used if the size is smaller
than 9*SZREG.

This patch is based on Palmer's past comment.
> My guess is that some workloads will want some smaller unrolling factors,

It will reduce the number of slow byte_copy being used when the 
size is small.

Have tested on qemu rv32, qemu rv64 and beaglev beta board.

In the future, I am planning to convert uaccess.S to inline assembly 
in .c file. Then it will be easier to optimize on both in-order core and
out-of-order core with #ifdef macro in c.

Akira Tsukamoto (1):
  riscv: __asm_copy_to-from_user: Improve using word copy if size <
    9*SZREG

 arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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