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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@gmail.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>,
	igor.stoppa@huawei.com, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Ahmed Soliman <ahmedsoliman@mena.vt.edu>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: memset_user()
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:05:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221200546.GA8441@uranus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221182515.GF10600@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:25:16AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> > +unsigned long __memset_user(void __user *addr, int c, unsigned long size)
> > +{
> > +	long __d0;
> > +	unsigned long  pattern = 0;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
> > +		pattern = (pattern << 8) | (0xFF & c);
> 
> That's inefficient.
> 
> 	pattern = (unsigned char)c;
> 	pattern |= pattern << 8;
> 	pattern |= pattern << 16;
> 	pattern |= pattern << 32;

Won't

	pattern = 0x0101010101010101 * c;

do the same but faster?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181221181423.20455-1-igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: memset_user() Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:25   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 18:46     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 20:05     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2018-12-21 20:29       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 20:46         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-12-21 21:07           ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 21:17             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 02/12] __wr_after_init: linker section and label Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 03/12] __wr_after_init: generic functionality Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:41   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 19:07     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 19:43       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-21 21:54         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 04/12] __wr_after_init: debug writes Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 05/12] __wr_after_init: x86_64: __wr_op Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 06/12] __wr_after_init: Documentation: self-protection Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 07/12] __wr_after_init: lkdtm test Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 08/12] rodata_test: refactor tests Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 09/12] rodata_test: add verification for __wr_after_init Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 10/12] __wr_after_init: test write rare functionality Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 11/12] IMA: turn ima_policy_flags into __wr_after_init Igor Stoppa
2018-12-21 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/12] x86_64: __clear_user as case of __memset_user Igor Stoppa
2018-12-19 21:33 [RFC v2 PATCH 0/12] hardening: statically allocated protected memory Igor Stoppa
2018-12-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: memset_user() Igor Stoppa

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