[RFC 0/3] powerpc: memory copy routines tweaked for Cell
Mark Nelson
markn at au1.ibm.com
Fri Jun 20 10:04:02 EST 2008
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:53:49 am Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > I assume it has suffered from bitrot and nobody tried to do better
> > since the Power3 days. AFAICT, it hasn't seen any update since your
> > original Power4 version from 2002.
>
> I've got an out-of-tree optimized version for pa6t as well that I
> haven't bothered posting yet.
>
> The real pain with the usercopy code is all the exception cases. If
> anyone has made a test harness to make sure they're all right, please
> do post it for others to use as well...
I second that request - I verified (to the best that I could) with
pen and paper that the exception handling on this new version
is correct but it would be great to have a better way to test it.
Mark
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