[U-Boot] [PATCH V4 2/3] lib_generic memset: fill one word at a time if possible

Alessandro Rubini rubini-list at gnudd.com
Sat Oct 10 11:51:16 CEST 2009


From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini at unipv.it>

If the destination is aligned, fill ulong values until possible.
Then fill remaining part by byte.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini at unipv.it>
Acked-by: Andrea Gallo <andrea.gallo at stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
---
 lib_generic/string.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib_generic/string.c b/lib_generic/string.c
index 61a45dc..b375b81 100644
--- a/lib_generic/string.c
+++ b/lib_generic/string.c
@@ -403,10 +403,26 @@ char *strswab(const char *s)
  */
 void * memset(void * s,int c,size_t count)
 {
-	char *xs = (char *) s;
-
+	unsigned long *sl = (unsigned long *) s;
+	unsigned long cl = 0;
+	char *s8;
+	int i;
+
+	/* do it one word at a time (32 bits or 64 bits) while possible */
+	if ( ((ulong)s & (sizeof(*sl) - 1)) == 0) {
+		for (i = 0; i < sizeof(*sl); i++) {
+			cl <<= 8;
+			cl |= c & 0xff;
+		}
+		while (count >= sizeof(*sl)) {
+			*sl++ = cl;
+			count -= sizeof(*sl);
+		}
+	}
+	/* fill 8 bits at a time */
+	s8 = (char *)sl;
 	while (count--)
-		*xs++ = c;
+		*s8++ = c;
 
 	return s;
 }
-- 
1.6.0.2


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