Re: [RFC 4/4] ARC: uaccess: use optimized generic __strnlen_user/__strncpy_from_user

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:08 PM Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..00e92be70987
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2020 Synopsys Inc.
> + */
> +#ifndef __ASM_ARC_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H
> +#define __ASM_ARC_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H
> +
> +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> +
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +
> +struct word_at_a_time {
> +       const unsigned long one_bits, high_bits;
> +};

What's wrong with the generic version on little-endian? Any
chance you can find a way to make it work as well for you as
this copy?

> +static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> +       return fls64(mask) >> 3;
> +#else
> +       return fls(mask) >> 3;
> +#endif

The CONFIG_64BIT check not be needed, unless you are adding
support for 64-bit ARC really soon.

       Arnd