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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2016-07-24 09:27:05 +1000
committerStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-08-18 16:04:26 +1000
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libc: Use 8-bytes stores for non-0 memset too
Memory poisoning hammers this, so let's be a bit smart about it and avoid falling back to byte stores when the data is not 0 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libc')
-rw-r--r--libc/string/memset.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libc/string/memset.c b/libc/string/memset.c
index 18b7619..dae4366 100644
--- a/libc/string/memset.c
+++ b/libc/string/memset.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ void *
memset(void *dest, int c, size_t size)
{
unsigned char *d = (unsigned char *)dest;
+ unsigned long big_c = 0;
#if defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__powerpc64__)
if (size > CACHE_LINE_SIZE && c==0) {
@@ -33,8 +34,14 @@ memset(void *dest, int c, size_t size)
}
#endif
+ if (c) {
+ big_c = c;
+ big_c |= (big_c << 8) | big_c;
+ big_c |= (big_c << 16) | big_c;
+ big_c |= (big_c << 32) | big_c;
+ }
while (size >= 8 && c == 0) {
- *((unsigned long long*)d) = 0ULL;
+ *((unsigned long *)d) = big_c;
d+=8;
size-=8;
}