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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memmove broken on alpha - was Re: NFS oddity (2.4.0test13pre4ac2 server, 2.0.36/2.2.14 clients)
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:08:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001230000812.A16941@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14925.12964.995179.63899@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012300105100.26235-100000@tardis.home.dave> <14925.16964.875883.863169@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <20001230051825.Z28963@mea-ext.zmailer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001230051825.Z28963@mea-ext.zmailer.org>

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:18:25AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   As the patch by mr. Kokshaysky is quite different doing more work
>   (and not only label name changes), I would prefer Richard Henderson
>   to act as an umpire to tell if your patch is sufficient, or if that
>   big thing by Kokshaysky is needed.

Ivan's code is needed.  You can't fall back to memcpy when
there is overlap.  The ev6 version _will_ corrupt data if
you do.


r~
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-12-30  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-29 19:53 NFS oddity (2.4.0test13pre4ac2 server, 2.0.36/2.2.14 clients) Dave Gilbert
2000-12-29 21:04 ` Neil Brown
2000-12-29 22:55   ` Dave Gilbert
2000-12-30  0:56     ` Neil Brown
2000-12-30  1:07       ` Dave Gilbert
2000-12-30  2:02         ` memmove broken on alpha - was " Neil Brown
2000-12-30  3:18           ` Matti Aarnio
2000-12-30  8:08             ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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