I was using memset on a reserved area of memory (64bit x86 kernel and system),
and noticed that as soon as I exceed a size of 2GB, the function becomes
extremely slow, e.g just below 2GB it takes typically about 0.3s, and just
above 2GB is takes about 39s to complete...
I tried tracing the eventual function that is called in the kernel, and I think
it resolves to the below (even on x86_64 if I'm not mistaken):
static inline void *__memset_generic(void *s, char c, size_t count)
{
int d0, d1;
asm volatile("rep\n\t"
"stosb"
: "=&c" (d0), "=&D" (d1)
: "a" (c), "1" (s), "0" (count)
: "memory");
return s;
}
size_t is defined as (unsigned long) on my platform, but I suspect the d0 and
d1 variables above cause problems because they are int... Is this a kernel bug,
or known limitation, or what?
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