arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-memcpy.S

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-memcpy.S

File Facts

System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-memcpy.S
Extension
.S
Size
12619 bytes
Lines
485
Domain
Architecture Layer
Bucket
arch/mips
Inferred role
Architecture Layer: exported/initcall integration point
Status
integration implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.

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#include <linux/export.h>
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/regdef.h>

#define dst a0
#define src a1
#define len a2

/*
 * Spec
 *
 * memcpy copies len bytes from src to dst and sets v0 to dst.
 * It assumes that
 *   - src and dst don't overlap
 *   - src is readable
 *   - dst is writable
 * memcpy uses the standard calling convention
 *
 * __copy_user copies up to len bytes from src to dst and sets a2 (len) to
 * the number of uncopied bytes due to an exception caused by a read or write.
 * __copy_user assumes that src and dst don't overlap, and that the call is
 * implementing one of the following:
 *   copy_to_user
 *     - src is readable  (no exceptions when reading src)
 *   copy_from_user
 *     - dst is writable  (no exceptions when writing dst)
 * __copy_user uses a non-standard calling convention; see
 * arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h
 *
 * When an exception happens on a load, the handler must
 # ensure that all of the destination buffer is overwritten to prevent
 * leaking information to user mode programs.
 */

/*
 * Implementation
 */

/*
 * The exception handler for loads requires that:
 *  1- AT contain the address of the byte just past the end of the source
 *     of the copy,
 *  2- src_entry <= src < AT, and
 *  3- (dst - src) == (dst_entry - src_entry),
 * The _entry suffix denotes values when __copy_user was called.
 *
 * (1) is set up up by uaccess.h and maintained by not writing AT in copy_user
 * (2) is met by incrementing src by the number of bytes copied
 * (3) is met by not doing loads between a pair of increments of dst and src
 *
 * The exception handlers for stores adjust len (if necessary) and return.
 * These handlers do not need to overwrite any data.
 *
 * For __rmemcpy and memmove an exception is always a kernel bug, therefore
 * they're not protected.
 */

#define EXC(inst_reg,addr,handler)		\
9:	inst_reg, addr;				\
	.section __ex_table,"a";		\
	PTR_WD	9b, handler;			\
	.previous

/*
 * Only on the 64-bit kernel we can made use of 64-bit registers.
 */

#define LOAD   ld
#define LOADL  ldl

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