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Avoid that the compiler generates an mvcos loop for constant sizes smaller than 4096 bytes. The mvcos instruction copies between zero and 4096 bytes (effective length) with one operation. Therefore it is not necessary to implement a loop for sizes smaller or equal to 4096 bytes. This reduces the kernel text size by ~50kb (defconfig, gcc 14.2.0): add/remove: 4/5 grow/shrink: 6/471 up/down: 2294/-51700 (-49406) Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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