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authorRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1995-02-21 08:07:34 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1995-02-21 08:07:34 +0000
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* string/Makefile (distribute): Add pagecopy.h.
* sysdeps/mach/pagecopy.h: New file. * sysdeps/generic/pagecopy.h: New file. * sysdeps/generic/memcpy.c: Include pagecopy.h; call PAGE_COPY_FWD_MAYBE first when word aligned. * sysdeps/generic/memmove.c: Likewise.
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+/* Macros for copying by pages; used in memcpy, memmove. Generic macros.
+Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+Library General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
+not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
+Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+/* This file defines the macro:
+
+ PAGE_COPY_FWD_MAYBE (dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes)
+
+ which is invoked like WORD_COPY_FWD et al. The pointers should be at
+ least word aligned. This will check if virtual copying by pages can and
+ should be done and do it if so.
+
+ System-specific pagecopy.h files should define these macros and then
+ #include this file:
+
+ PAGE_COPY_THRESHOLD
+ -- Minimum size for which virtual copying by pages is worthwhile.
+
+ PAGE_SIZE
+ -- Size of a page.
+
+ PAGE_COPY_FWD (dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes)
+ -- Macro to perform the virtual copy operation.
+ The pointers will be aligned to PAGE_SIZE bytes.
+*/
+
+
+#if PAGE_COPY_THRESHOLD
+
+#define PAGE_COPY_FWD_MAYBE(dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes) \
+ do \
+ { \
+ if ((nbytes) >= PAGE_COPY_THRESHOLD && \
+ PAGE_OFFSET (dstp) == PAGE_OFFSET (srcp)) \
+ { \
+ /* The amount to copy is past the threshold for copying \
+ pages virtually with kernel VM operations, and the \
+ source and destination addresses have the same alignment. */ \
+ size_t nbytes_before = PAGE_OFFSET (PAGE_SIZE - PAGE_OFFSET (dstp));\
+ if (nbytes_before != 0) \
+ { \
+ /* First copy the words before the first page boundary. */ \
+ WORD_COPY_FWD (dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes_before); \
+ nbytes_before -= nbytes_left; \
+ nbytes -= nbytes_before; \
+ } \
+ if (nbytes_before == 0) \
+ PAGE_COPY_FWD (dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes); \
+ } \
+ } while (0)
+
+/* The page size is always a power of two, so we can avoid modulo division. */
+#define PAGE_OFFSET(n) ((n) & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))
+
+#else
+
+#define PAGE_COPY_FWD_MAYBE(dstp, srcp, nbytes_left, nbytes) /* nada */
+
+#endif