[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Use the new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Mon May 28 13:56:40 EST 2012
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:03:47 +1000
> This is much the same as for SPARC except that we can do the find_zero()
> function more efficiently using the count-leading-zeroes instructions.
> Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Looks great.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
I might hack sparc64 to use 'lzd' or 'popc' on newer chips via code
patching at some point.
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