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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Hsin-Yu.Chen" <harry021633@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] string: improve strlen performance
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 18:38:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjOzhc0o00njV_RT@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202405020809.C8973634BF@keescook>

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:10:32AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 06:03:04PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 5:59 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM Hsin-Yu.Chen <harry021633@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > And on top of that, check what this code will do on the architectures
> > that do not support unaligned access. If everything is fine, mention
> > this in the commit message. Btw, your commit message needs
> > elaboration, e.g., pointing to the test case (which is absent in this
> > patch, I assume it's already in the kernel?) and step-by-step
> > instructions on how you got the mentioned results with details of the
> > hardware you used for that.
> 
> I might be worth looking at the implementation of strscpy(), which is
> doing similar multi-byte steps and handles unaligned access.

Right, we have a word-at-a-time.h or alike for this things.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-02 14:13 [PATCH 2/2] string: improve strlen performance Hsin-Yu.Chen
2024-05-02 14:59 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-02 15:03   ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-02 15:10     ` Kees Cook
2024-05-02 15:38       ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2024-05-05 13:38       ` David Laight

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