Re: [PATCH] bitmap_equal memcmp optimization for s390

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 10:46:20 EST


On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:26:47 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I hesitate to put another CONFIG_S390 into common code, alternatively
> > __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP could be used. There are 7 architectures with the
> > define: arc, arm64, blackfin, frv, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
> > Of those I guess only powerpc, s390 and sparc will have configs with
> > (NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG). For (NR_CPUS <= BITS_PER_LONG) the xor
> > optimization is used.
>
> FRV doesn't have __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP for __KERNEL__.

Yes indeed. How strange to define __HAVE_ARCH_xxx for user space only.

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Martin.

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