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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Let scsi_execute_cmd() mark args->sshdr as invalid
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 15:23:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7c5f4334ab6ff897547c68ea216fbcba22d4929.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85a7dc28-74ec-f4d6-b5c3-ca456ce9d380@suse.com>

On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 15:17 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > 
> > We know for certain that sizeof(*sshdr) is 8 bytes, and will most
> > probably remain so. Thus
> > 
> >      memset(sshdr, 0, sizeof(*sshdr))
> > 
> > would result in more efficient code.
> 
> I fail to see why zeroing a single byte would be less efficient than
> zeroing
> a possibly unaligned 8-byte area.

I don't think it can be unaligned. gcc seems to think the same. It
compiles the memset(sshdr, ...) in scsi_normalize_sense() into a single
instruction on x86_64.

0xffffffff8177e9d0 <scsi_normalize_sense>:      nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1) [FTRACE NOP]
0xffffffff8177e9d5 <scsi_normalize_sense+5>:    test   %rdi,%rdi
0xffffffff8177e9d8 <scsi_normalize_sense+8>:    movq   $0x0,(%rdx)

Martin


  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-11 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-11 12:34 [PATCH] scsi: Let scsi_execute_cmd() mark args->sshdr as invalid Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 12:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-11 12:54   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 13:10 ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-11 13:17   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 13:23     ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2023-05-11 13:32       ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 15:59         ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-11 16:00 ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-17  2:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-17  4:54   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-17 15:05     ` John Garry
2023-05-18  4:53       ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-18 10:57         ` John Garry
2023-05-18 19:54           ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-19 16:06             ` John Garry
2023-05-19 16:54               ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-19 17:12                 ` John Garry
2023-05-19 17:39                   ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-22  9:55                     ` John Garry
2023-05-22 13:31                       ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-22 15:54                         ` John Garry
2023-05-22 22:48                           ` michael.christie
2023-05-21  1:19           ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-21  5:23             ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-22 22:26               ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-23 15:04             ` Mike Christie
2023-05-21  0:46     ` Martin K. Petersen

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