From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: memcpy.S patch in 64-bit
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:42:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808174246.A27274@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020808170518.13783D-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:08:07PM +0200
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:08:07PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > The __copy_user function (in arch/mips64/lib/memcpy.S) calls __bzero.
> > We can't do that because __bzero might modify len, which we want to
> > return in case of an error.
> > The following patch take care of the problem.
>
> Hmm, how about simply cloning arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S? It seems:
>
> 1. Designed to work on mips64 as well.
>
> 2. More up to date.
>
> And it would ease maintenance.
Right but Carsten's patch is already ready, so I'm going to use it
for now.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 13:24 memcpy.S patch in 64-bit Carsten Langgaard
2002-08-08 15:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-08-08 15:42 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-08-08 20:05 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-08-09 8:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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