On 24/09/18 12:59, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Cooper [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 24 September 2018 11:55
>> To: Xen-devel <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>; Jan Beulich
>> <[email protected]>; Wei Liu <[email protected]>; Roger Pau Monne
>> <[email protected]>; Paul Durrant <[email protected]>; Suravee
>> Suthikulpanit <[email protected]>; Brian Woods
>> <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/SVM-IOMMU: Don't opencode memcpy() in
>> queue_iommu_command()
>>
>> In practice, this allows the compiler to replace the loop with a pair of
>> movs.
>>
>> No functional change.
> Well there is a potential functional change...
>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> CC: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>> CC: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
>> CC: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
>> CC: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
>> CC: Suravee Suthikulpanit <[email protected]>
>> CC: Brian Woods <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_cmd.c      | 12 ++++--------
>>  xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/svm/amd-iommu-defs.h |  1 -
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_cmd.c
>> b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_cmd.c
>> index 08247fa..c6c0b4f 100644
>> --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_cmd.c
>> +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/amd/iommu_cmd.c
>> @@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
>>
>>  static int queue_iommu_command(struct amd_iommu *iommu, u32 cmd[])
>>  {
>> -    u32 tail, head, *cmd_buffer;
>> -    int i;
>> +    uint32_t tail, head;
>>
>>      tail = iommu->cmd_buffer.tail;
>>      if ( ++tail == iommu->cmd_buffer.entries )
>> @@ -35,12 +34,9 @@ static int queue_iommu_command(struct amd_iommu *iommu,
>> u32 cmd[])
>>                                        IOMMU_CMD_BUFFER_HEAD_OFFSET));
>>      if ( head != tail )
>>      {
>> -        cmd_buffer = (u32 *)(iommu->cmd_buffer.buffer +
>> -                             (iommu->cmd_buffer.tail *
>> -                             IOMMU_CMD_BUFFER_ENTRY_SIZE));
>> -
>> -        for ( i = 0; i < IOMMU_CMD_BUFFER_U32_PER_ENTRY; i++ )
>> -            cmd_buffer[i] = cmd[i];
>> +        memcpy(iommu->cmd_buffer.buffer +
>> +               (iommu->cmd_buffer.tail * IOMMU_CMD_BUFFER_ENTRY_SIZE),
>> +               cmd, IOMMU_CMD_BUFFER_ENTRY_SIZE);
> ...since the built-in memcpy may not guarantee to the copy in 4 byte chunks 
> in ascending order.

"No functional change" != "The binary is identical".

The functionality of queue_iommu_command() does not change, even if it's
code generation does.  It is just copying bytes into a shared ring,
bounded later by updating the tail pointer.

~Andrew

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