linux/arch/x86/lib
Linus Torvalds 92ae03f2ef x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up
This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user()
by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions
that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences
between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at
a time.  Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of
hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly
before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason).

Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it
adds, due to the de-duplication.  Also, we no longer export (or define)
the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do
the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and
the user address space checks are built in to the new code.

Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in
fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they
copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the
address space.

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-11 09:41:28 -07:00
..
.gitignore x86: Gitignore: arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c 2009-11-04 13:11:28 +01:00
atomic64_32.c x86: Adjust asm constraints in atomic64 wrappers 2012-01-20 17:29:31 -08:00
atomic64_386_32.S x86: atomic64 assembly improvements 2012-01-20 17:29:49 -08:00
atomic64_cx8_32.S x86: atomic64 assembly improvements 2012-01-20 17:29:49 -08:00
cache-smp.c x86, lib: Add wbinvd smp helpers 2010-01-22 16:05:42 -08:00
checksum_32.S x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more places 2011-02-28 18:06:22 +01:00
clear_page_64.S x86, mem: clear_page_64.S: Support clear_page() with enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB 2011-05-17 15:40:27 -07:00
cmpxchg8b_emu.S x86: Provide an alternative() based cmpxchg64() 2009-09-30 22:55:59 +02:00
cmpxchg16b_emu.S percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double 2011-03-27 19:25:36 -07:00
cmpxchg.c x86, asm: Merge cmpxchg_486_u64() and cmpxchg8b_emu() 2010-07-28 17:05:11 -07:00
copy_page_64.S x86-64: Slightly shorten copy_page() 2012-01-06 12:25:37 +01:00
copy_user_64.S x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit 2011-05-18 12:49:00 +02:00
copy_user_nocache_64.S x86: wrong register was used in align macro 2008-07-30 10:10:39 -07:00
csum-copy_64.S x86: Clean up csum-copy_64.S a bit 2011-03-18 10:44:26 +01:00
csum-partial_64.c x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
csum-wrappers_64.c x86: clean up csum-wrappers_64.c some more 2008-02-19 16:18:32 +01:00
delay.c x86: Derandom delay_tsc for 64 bit 2012-03-09 12:43:27 -08:00
getuser.S x86: use _types.h headers in asm where available 2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
inat.c x86: Fix to decode grouped AVX with VEX pp bits 2012-02-11 15:11:35 +01:00
insn.c x86: Fix to decode grouped AVX with VEX pp bits 2012-02-11 15:11:35 +01:00
iomap_copy_64.S
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-22 17:02:24 -07:00
memcpy_32.c x86, mem: Optimize memmove for small size and unaligned cases 2010-09-24 18:57:11 -07:00
memcpy_64.S x86-64: Handle byte-wise tail copying in memcpy() without a loop 2012-01-26 21:19:20 +01:00
memmove_64.S x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative 2011-07-13 11:22:56 -07:00
memset_64.S x86-64: Fix memset() to support sizes of 4Gb and above 2012-01-26 11:50:04 +01:00
mmx_32.c x86: clean up mmx_32.c 2008-04-17 17:40:47 +02:00
msr-reg-export.c x86, msr: change msr-reg.o to obj-y, and export its symbols 2009-09-04 10:00:09 -07:00
msr-reg.S x86, msr: Fix msr-reg.S compilation with gas 2.16.1, on 32-bit too 2009-09-03 21:26:34 +02:00
msr-smp.c x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n 2009-12-16 15:36:32 -08:00
msr.c x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n 2009-12-16 15:36:32 -08:00
putuser.S x86: merge putuser asm functions. 2008-07-09 09:14:13 +02:00
rwlock.S x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issue 2011-07-21 09:03:36 +02:00
rwsem.S x86: Unify rwsem assembly implementation 2011-07-21 09:03:32 +02:00
string_32.c x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit 2011-12-12 18:33:42 +01:00
strstr_32.c x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/lib/strstr_32.c 2008-08-15 16:53:24 +02:00
thunk_32.S x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S 2011-02-28 18:06:22 +01:00
thunk_64.S x86: Fix write lock scalability 64-bit issue 2011-07-21 09:03:36 +02:00
usercopy_32.c x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up 2012-04-11 09:41:28 -07:00
usercopy_64.c x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up 2012-04-11 09:41:28 -07:00
usercopy.c x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up 2012-04-11 09:41:28 -07:00
x86-opcode-map.txt Merge branches 'sched-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-19 14:53:06 -08:00