[PATCH] powerpc: tiny memcpy_(to|from)io optimisation

[Albrecht Dreß]

This trivial patch changes memcpy_(to|from)io as to transfer as many  
32-bit words as possible in 32-bit accesses (in the current solution,  
the last 32-bit word was transferred as 4 byte accesses).

Signed-off-by: Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at arcor.de>
---

diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.29.1.orig/Documentation/dontdiff  
linux-2.6.29.1.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c  
linux-2.6.29.1/arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c
--- linux-2.6.29.1.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c	2009-04-02  
22:55:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.29.1/arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c	2009-05-27  
11:36:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ void _memcpy_fromio(void *dest, const vo
  		dest++;
  		n--;
  	}
-	while(n > 4) {
+	while(n >= 4) {
  		*((u32 *)dest) = *((volatile u32 *)vsrc);
  		eieio();
  		vsrc += 4;
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ void _memcpy_toio(volatile void __iomem
  		vdest++;
  		n--;
  	}
-	while(n > 4) {
+	while(n >= 4) {
  		*((volatile u32 *)vdest) = *((volatile u32 *)src);
  		src += 4;
  		vdest += 4;
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