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Kernel: Don't use MMX memcpy() in the kernel.

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I just discovered the hard way that clobbering FPU/MMX/SSE registers in the
kernel makes things very confusing for userspace (and other kernel threads.)

Let's banish all of those things from the kernel to keep things simple.
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Andreas Kling 2019-04-22 17:13:18 +02:00
parent 1d02c7b6f1
commit 6693cfb26a
3 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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AK/StdLibExtras.h
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@ -11,14 +11,18 @@
#include <AK/Types.h>
#ifndef KERNEL
extern "C" void* mmx_memcpy(void* to, const void* from, size_t);
#endif
[[gnu::always_inline]] inline void fast_dword_copy(dword* dest, const dword* src, size_t count)
{
#ifndef KERNEL
if (count >= 256) {
mmx_memcpy(dest, src, count * sizeof(count));
return;
}
#endif
asm volatile(
"rep movsl\n"
: "=S"(src), "=D"(dest), "=c"(count)