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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/powernv: Treat an empty reboot string as default
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:04:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200224100442.GE22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <767d85e7-7d8f-4a88-b16e-a4d69fb51343@ozlabs.ru>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:32:28PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 17/02/2020 13:48, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> > Treat an empty reboot cmd string the same as a NULL string. This squashes a
> > spurious unsupported reboot message that sometimes gets out when using
> > xmon.

> > -		if (!cmd)
> > +		if (!cmd || !strlen(cmd))
> 
> nit: this does not matter here in practice but
> 
> if (!cmd || cmd[0] == '\0')
> 
> is faster (you do not care about the length anyway) and safer (@cmd can
> potentially be endless) ;)

No it isn't, this compiles to identical machine code.  (I tested with
GCC 9, and going back until 4.6 -- the generated code becomes
progressively worse (unrelated to this code, fwiw), but identical for
both cases all the time).


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-24 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-17  2:48 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/powernv: Treat an empty reboot string as default Oliver O'Halloran
2020-02-17  2:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/powernv: Add explicit fast-reboot support Oliver O'Halloran
2020-02-24  3:16   ` Andrew Donnellan
2020-02-24  2:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/powernv: Treat an empty reboot string as default Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-24 10:04   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-02-25  1:38     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-02-24  3:13 ` Andrew Donnellan
2020-03-06  0:27 ` Michael Ellerman

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