From the gcc sources, the compiler generates the lwl,lwr etc. in the block move
code in gcc/config/mips/mips.c ( output_block_move ).
There is an option -mmemcpy which tells gcc to use a memcpy compiled in with
the sources for this block move instead of gcc genetrating code. The problem
however with this is that arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S is optimized using
lwl,lwr,swl,swr. If this can be modified so that lwl,lwr,swl,swr is used if
enabled as a kernel option, it might work very well.
Any ideas / suggestions?
Thanks
Ranjan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:ralf@linux-mips.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:34 PM
To: Richard Hodges
Cc: Ranjan Parthasarathy; 'linux-mips@linux-mips.org'
Subject: Re: Disabling lwl and lwr instruction generation
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:50:53PM -0800, Richard Hodges wrote:
> I got lwl and lwr from a memcpy() with two void pointers...
>
> I quickly changed those to the (aligned) structure pointers instead, and
> then memcpy() changed to ordinary word loads and stores.
>
> So, is somebody starting a toolchain for that new Chinese CPU? :-)
Wouldn't be the first processor without lwl/lwr instructions. There have
been a few that didn't implement it for silly bean^Wgate counting issues
others have done it for patent and licensing reasons.
(Afair MIPS's patent is about to expire and IBM's prior art patent in the
same area is even way older but that legalese ...)
Ralf
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