From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Tanzir Hasan <tanzirh@google.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nick DeSaulniers <nnn@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sh: Added kernel.h to word-at-a-time
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:25:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZYCAlssPggCjd3NJ@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-cH4oQ+nM6G897PaUwd8zaaAvqq3QL77=4739sZovVgkG9XA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 09:05:56AM -0800, Tanzir Hasan wrote:
> > While REPEAT_BYTE has a manageable number of users, upper_* and
> > lower_* have significantly more; I worry about moving those causing
> > regressions. We can move them, but such changes would need
> > significantly more soak time than this series IMO. Tanzir is also
> > working on statistical analysis; I suspect if he analyzes
> > include/linux/kernel.h, he can comment on whether the usage of
> > REPEAT_BYTE is correlated with the usage of upper_* and lower_* in
> > order to inform whether they should be grouped together or not.
>
> Removing REPEAT_BYTE is manageable and I have already moved it.
Removing? You mean switching to something else in all those headers?
> I will
> be pushing a patch that moves just that into another file called wordpart.h.
> There are too many instances of the other functions for it to make sense to
> remove them all in this patch.
Okay, let's see the proposal (patch) code then!
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-14 21:06 [PATCH v2 0/2] shrink lib/string.i via IWYU tanzirh
2023-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sh: Added kernel.h to word-at-a-time tanzirh
2023-12-14 21:37 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-14 21:51 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-12-15 16:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <CAE-cH4p5VJ_A91BAkURBN67ACA0_u7T8UhApUYLQDWeeRY6FWA@mail.gmail.com>
2023-12-15 19:09 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-12-18 16:57 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-12-18 17:05 ` Tanzir Hasan
2023-12-18 17:25 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2023-12-18 17:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/string: shrink lib/string.i via IWYU tanzirh
2023-12-14 21:39 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-15 16:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-01-09 21:49 ` Justin Stitt
2024-01-11 0:07 ` Kees Cook
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