A number of our assembly implementations of string functions do not
align their hot loops. I was going to align them manually, but I
realised that they are are almost instruction for instruction
identical to what gcc produces, with the advantage that gcc does
align them.

In light of that, let's just remove the assembly versions.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Unaligned stores take alignment exceptions on POWER7 running in little-endian.
This is a dumb little-endian base memcpy that prevents unaligned stores.
Once booted the feature fixup code switches over to the VMX copy loops
(which are already endian safe).

The question is what we do before that switch over. The base 64bit
memcpy takes alignment exceptions on POWER7 so we can't use it as is.
Fixing the causes of alignment exception would slow it down, because
we'd need to ensure all loads and stores are aligned either through
rotate tricks or bytewise loads and stores. Either would be bad for
all other 64bit platforms.

[ I simplified the loop a bit - Anton ]
Signed-off-by: NPhilippe Bergheaud <felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We need to fix some endian issues in our memcpy code. For now
just enable the generic memcpy routine for little endian builds.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

We have an assembly version of strncmp for the bootwrapper, but not
for the kernel, so we end up using the C version in the kernel.  This
takes the strncmp code from the bootup and copies it to the kernel
proper, adding two instructions so it copes correctly with len==0.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

We have several platforms using local copies of identical
code.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It takes a size_t, not an int, as its third argument.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Standardize on _ASM_POWERPC_... prefix for all #include
exclusion symbols.  Fixup all the non-compilers.
Signed-off-by: NJon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

They differed in either simple comments or in the protecting ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!