Re: csum_partial_copy_fromuser patch, #2

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 2 Feb 1997 17:10:33 +0000 (GMT)


> If we don't want end up with two different codes for check/nocheck, which
> would be a wast of icache, I guess, then I think the best way would be to
> pass 0 as err to the asm routine, as you access the *err only in the
> exception handler - and there you have plenty of time to check whether err
> is NULL or not...

Why not pass the address of a dummy long word. Thats even faster than
doing the check (assuming we only write on an error and errors are
rare anyway).

Alan