linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:17:53 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomic

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>
> 32bit already did this correctly by duplicating the code.

I wonder how much of this could be in asm/uaccess.h? We already do all
the fixed-size get_user/put_user stuff in that generic x86 code, and
I'm wondering why we don't do the "__builtin_constant_p()" cases of
copy_to/from_user() there too?

It's independent of this patch-series, but it might be good to take a
look at unifying these things..

             Linus
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