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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:13:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgcHw-O1sXw2jfJEHSVa2xmJcP9dzUmy71Cqk7_wVLSFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190925180412.GK26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:04 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> IMO it's better to lift reading the first word out of the loop, like this:
>   ...
> Do you see any problems with that variant?

That looks fine to me too.

It's a bit harder for humans to read because of how it reads the word
from user space one iteration early, but from a code generation
standpoint it probably is better.

So slightly subtler source code, and imho harder to read, but it looks
correct to me.

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25 16:59 [PATCH v1 0/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] " Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 17:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-25 17:20     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 17:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-25 18:04         ` Al Viro
2019-09-25 18:13           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-09-25 19:43             ` Al Viro
2019-09-25 20:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-25 17:18   ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-25 17:20     ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-25 19:16   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-25 20:47   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 17:22   ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-25 18:59   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-25 19:08   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] sched_setattr: " Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] perf_event_open: " Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-25 17:09 ` [PATCH v1 0/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper Christian Brauner

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