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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add likely around access_ok for uaccess
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:30:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030914123024.4a261cd3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F644E36.5010402@colorfullife.com>

Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed that gcc's autodetection (3.2.2) guesses 
>  the "if(access_ok())" tests in uaccess.h wrong and puts the error memset 
>  into the direct path and the copy out of line.
> 
>  The attached patch adds likely to the tests

Fair enough.  There are quite a few other access_ok() callers.   How
about just:

--- 25/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h~access_ok-is-likely	2003-09-14 12:29:10.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h	2003-09-14 12:29:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ extern struct movsl_mask {
  * checks that the pointer is in the user space range - after calling
  * this function, memory access functions may still return -EFAULT.
  */
-#define access_ok(type,addr,size) (__range_ok(addr,size) == 0)
+#define access_ok(type,addr,size) (likely(__range_ok(addr,size) == 0))
 
 /**
  * verify_area: - Obsolete, use access_ok()

_


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-14 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-14 11:17 [PATCH] add likely around access_ok for uaccess Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 19:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-09-14 19:45   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 19:48     ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-14 20:00     ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-15 22:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 19:49 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-16 20:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 20:59     ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-17 16:57       ` Manfred Spraul
     [not found] <vD5l.6Wt.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-14 16:49 ` Andi Kleen

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