linux-kernel - Re: vga and 64-bit memcpy's

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:53:00 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vga and 64-bit memcpy's

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>
> was tested and found to work, just a question if we care enough to fix
> it I suppose.

Well, we might not care deeply, but at the same time I also do think
that we don't care deeply about the alleged performance advantages of
having that special scr_memmovew() hack.

So I think I'd apply a real (and tested) patch to just remove the
special VT_BUF_HAVE_MEM{CPY|MOVE}W if I got one.

                    Linus
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