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Paul Burton 584149c771 MIPS: Drop 32-bit asm string functions
commit 3c0be5849259b729580c23549330973a2dd513a2 upstream.

We have assembly implementations of strcpy(), strncpy(), strcmp() &
strncmp() which:

 - Are simple byte-at-a-time loops with no particular optimizations. As
   a comment in the code describes, they're "rather naive".

 - Offer no clear performance advantage over the generic C
   implementations - in microbenchmarks performed by Alexander Lobakin
   the asm functions sometimes win & sometimes lose, but generally not
   by large margins in either direction.

 - Don't support 64-bit kernels, where we already make use of the
   generic C implementations.

 - Tend to bloat kernel code size due to inlining.

 - Don't support CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

 - Won't support nanoMIPS without rework.

For all of these reasons, delete the asm implementations & make use of
the generic C implementations for 32-bit kernels just like we already do
for 64-bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
URL: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/a2a35f1cf58d6db19eb4af9b4ae21e35@dlink.ru/
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-07 12:20:43 +01:00
arch MIPS: Drop 32-bit asm string functions 2021-03-07 12:20:43 +01:00
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