Adjust memcpy for ARM Cortex A9 cache line size

ARM Cortex A8 use 64 bytes and ARM Cortex A9 use 32 bytes cache line
size.

The following patch:
  Adds code to adjust memcpy cache line size to match A9 cache line
  size.
  Adds a flag to select between 32 bytes and 64 bytes cache line
  size.

  Copyright (C) ST-Ericsson SA 2010
    Modified neon implementation to fit Cortex A9 cache line size
    Author: Henrik Smiding henrik.smiding@stericsson.com for
            ST-Ericsson.

Change-Id: I8a55946bfb074e6ec0a14805ed65f73fcd0984a3
Signed-off-by: Christian Bejram <christian.bejram@stericsson.com>
This commit is contained in:
Henrik Smiding 2010-09-15 16:08:03 +02:00 committed by Christian Bejram
parent f7db5ecc4d
commit fe6338da91
2 changed files with 37 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -471,6 +471,14 @@ ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),arm)
ifeq ($(ARCH_ARM_HAVE_TLS_REGISTER),true)
libc_common_cflags += -DHAVE_ARM_TLS_REGISTER
endif
#
# Define HAVE_32_BYTE_CACHE_LINES to indicate to C
# library it should use to 32-byte version of memcpy, and not
# the 64-byte version.
#
ifeq ($(ARCH_ARM_HAVE_32_BYTE_CACHE_LINES),true)
libc_common_cflags += -DHAVE_32_BYTE_CACHE_LINE
endif
else # !arm
ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),x86)
libc_crt_target_cflags :=

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@ -34,23 +34,28 @@
.text
.fpu neon
#ifdef HAVE_32_BYTE_CACHE_LINE
/* a prefetch distance of 2 cache-lines */
#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 32
#define PREFETCH_DISTANCE (CACHE_LINE_SIZE*2)
#else
/* a prefetch distance of 4 cache-lines works best experimentally */
#define CACHE_LINE_SIZE 64
#define PREFETCH_DISTANCE (CACHE_LINE_SIZE*4)
#endif
ENTRY(memcpy)
.save {r0, lr}
stmfd sp!, {r0, lr}
/* start preloading as early as possible */
pld [r1, #(CACHE_LINE_SIZE*0)]
stmfd sp!, {r0, lr}
pld [r1, #(CACHE_LINE_SIZE*1)]
/* do we have at least 16-bytes to copy (needed for alignment below) */
cmp r2, #16
blo 5f
/* align destination to half cache-line for the write-buffer */
/* align destination to cache-line for the write-buffer */
rsb r3, r0, #0
ands r3, r3, #0xF
beq 0f
@ -79,6 +84,26 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
pld [r1, #(CACHE_LINE_SIZE*0)]
pld [r1, #(CACHE_LINE_SIZE*1)]
#ifdef HAVE_32_BYTE_CACHE_LINE
/* make sure we have at least 32 bytes to copy */
subs r2, r2, #32
blo 4f
/* preload all the cache lines we need.
* NOTE: the number of pld below depends on PREFETCH_DISTANCE,
* ideally would would increase the distance in the main loop to
* avoid the goofy code below. In practice this doesn't seem to make
* a big difference.
*/
pld [r1, #(PREFETCH_DISTANCE)]
1: /* The main loop copies 32 bytes at a time */
vld1.8 {d0 - d3}, [r1]!
pld [r1, #(PREFETCH_DISTANCE)]
subs r2, r2, #32
vst1.8 {d0 - d3}, [r0, :128]!
bhs 1b
#else
/* make sure we have at least 64 bytes to copy */
subs r2, r2, #64
blo 2f
@ -112,7 +137,7 @@ ENTRY(memcpy)
subs r2, r2, #32
vst1.8 {d0 - d3}, [r0, :128]!
bhs 3b
#endif
4: /* less than 32 left */
add r2, r2, #32
tst r2, #0x10