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From: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mostly portable strnlen_user()
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:32:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACM3HyFDY96F5kfsVCRQbx+8J+BUDCWXPqQVuLwOXRefS0Gcvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxukJSo7srOcfedqCSz1wiZhjz4=F8Tj96=uOqWxYqq+A@mail.gmail.com>


On 26 May 2012 06:19, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Make sure to take the second patch, the first was scrogged for the
> asm-generic case (and thus sparc). It would never have compiled.
>
> The second one should actually hopefully come close to working. At
> least I tested the compile by building the lib/ files with that,
> instead of the x86 native version.
>
> Obviously the asm-generic version cannot actually work with the dentry
> hashing routines (it needs the whole bytemask generation at a minimum
> for that), so it may be broken in the sense of "it doesn't actually
> work", but it is *closer*. And the concept seems to be ok, since it
> seems to work on x86 (I'm running it right now)

I gave this a try on OpenRISC... works fine here, too.

/Jonas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-26  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-25 22:35 Mostly portable strnlen_user() Linus Torvalds
2012-05-25 23:06 ` David Miller
2012-05-25 23:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-25 23:14     ` David Miller
2012-05-25 23:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-25 23:41         ` David Miller
2012-05-26  0:41           ` David Miller
2012-05-26  1:09             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  1:21               ` David Miller
2012-05-26  2:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  2:43                 ` David Miller
2012-05-26  3:56                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  4:15                     ` David Miller
2012-05-26  4:19                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  4:34                         ` David Miller
2012-05-26  4:44                         ` David Miller
2012-05-26  5:06                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  5:59                             ` David Miller
2012-05-26  8:32                         ` Jonas Bonn [this message]
2012-05-26 18:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26 23:46                             ` David Miller
2012-05-27  8:28                             ` Jonas Bonn
2012-05-28  3:07                             ` Paul Mackerras
2012-05-28  3:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-28  3:53                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-26  4:16                     ` Linus Torvalds

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