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Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> says: When the Zicboz extension is available we can more rapidly zero naturally aligned Zicboz block sized chunks of memory. As pages are always page aligned and are larger than any Zicboz block size will be, then clear_page() appears to be a good candidate for the extension. While cycle count and energy consumption should also be considered, we can be pretty certain that implementing clear_page() with the Zicboz extension is a win by comparing the new dynamic instruction count with its current count[1]. Doing so we see that the new count is just over a quarter of the old count (see patch6's commit message for more details). For those of you who reviewed v1[2], you may be looking for the memset() patches. As pointed out in v1, and a couple follow-up emails, it's not clear that patching memset() is a win yet. When I get a chance to test on real hardware with a comprehensive benchmark collection then I can post the memset() patches separately (assuming the benchmarks show it's worthwhile). * b4-shazam-merge: RISC-V: KVM: Expose Zicboz to the guest RISC-V: KVM: Provide UAPI for Zicboz block size RISC-V: Use Zicboz in clear_page when available RISC-V: cpufeatures: Put the upper 16 bits of patch ID to work RISC-V: Add Zicboz detection and block size parsing dt-bindings: riscv: Document cboz-block-size RISC-V: Factor out body of riscv_init_cbom_blocksize loop RISC-V: alternatives: Support patching multiple insns in assembly Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224162631.405473-1-ajones@ventanamicro.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.