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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: loop in copy_user_generic_string
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:44:47 +0100
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Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:
>
> Most likely movs emulation is broken for long counts.  Please post a 
> disassembly of copy_user_generic_string to make sure we're looking at 
> the same code.

Be careful -- this code is patched at runtime and what you 
see in the vmlinux is not necessarily the same that is executed

Incidentially that might cause problems.

-Andi

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