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Message-ID: <4A698280.4030600@monstr.eu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:44:32 +0200
From: Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
John Williams <john.williams@...alogix.com>
Subject: Re: generic uaccess.h
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 24 July 2009, Michal Simek wrote:
>> I have just look at asm-generic uaccess.h and there is one thing which
>> seems to me wrong.
>>
>> For put_user macro - you use __copy_to_user but you have for 64bit case
>> ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>> but look at fs/eventfd: eventfd_read function. At least for this
>> function(syscall) is necessary "return" 64bit
>> value on 32bit machines too.
>> IMHO that ifdef CONFIG_64BIT shouldn't be there.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> If you agree with me, I'll generate proper patch with description.
>
> The code was intentional, because 32 bit architectures normally
> don't acces u64 values efficiently. I would expect the memcpy
> to produce better object code in that case.
> Did you see an actual bug in my version or are you only
> guessing that the assignment should work better than the
> memcpy?
I have just compile noMMU version and first bootup failed.
I miss that memcpy after it. Ooou.
I'll let you know what my results are.
Michal
>
> What object code do you get with
>
> int test(unsigned long long __user *out, unsigned long long in)
> {
> return put_user(in, ptr);
> }
>
> in both cases?
>
> Arnd <><
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