| To: | Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: memcpy.S patch in 64-bit |
| From: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
| Date: | Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:08:07 +0200 (MET DST) |
| Cc: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <3D52711F.D5C6A8FC@mips.com> |
| Organization: | Technical University of Gdansk |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > The __copy_user function (in arch/mips64/lib/memcpy.S) calls __bzero. > We can't do that because __bzero might modify len, which we want to > return in case of an error. > The following patch take care of the problem. Hmm, how about simply cloning arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S? It seems: 1. Designed to work on mips64 as well. 2. More up to date. And it would ease maintenance. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + |
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