----- On Oct 13, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Andi Kleen a...@firstfloor.org wrote:
>> + pagefault_disable();
>> + switch (len) {
>> + case 1:
>> + if (__get_user(tmp._u8, (uint8_t __user *)p))
>> + goto end;
>> + tmp._u8 += (uint8_t)count;
>> + if (__put_user(tmp._u8, (uint8_t __user *)p))
>> + goto end;
>> + break;
>
> It seems the code size could be dramatically shrunk by using a function
> pointer callback for the actual operation, and then avoiding all the
> copies. Since this is only a fallback this shouldn't be a problem
> (and modern branch predictors are fairly good in such situations anyways)
>
> If you really want to keep the code it would be better if you used
> some macros -- i bet there's a typo in here somewhere in this
> forest.
Good point!
I'll add this in the next round. Meanwhile, here is the resulting
commit:
https://github.com/compudj/linux-percpu-dev/commit/864b444f64f4c227ddc587d12631ff0d3440796c
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> -Andi
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