Re: [PATCH] openrisc/boot: Remove unnecessary initialisation in memcpy().

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima
Date: Sun Jan 23 2022 - 19:03:05 EST


From: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:27:54 +0900
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:01:00AM +0900, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > 'd' and 's' are initialised later with 'dest_w' and 'src_w', so we need not
> > initialise them before that.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This looks fine to me. I will queue this for the next release.

Thank you.


>
> Just curious why are you working on OpenRISC?

While reading memcpy() variants, I found a nit to fix in x86 boot-time
memcpy() [0]. While I'm at it, I just started reading all arch ones ;)

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220123015807.45005-1-kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx/


>
> -Stafford
>
> > ---
> > arch/openrisc/lib/memcpy.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/openrisc/lib/memcpy.c b/arch/openrisc/lib/memcpy.c
> > index fe2177628..e2af9b510 100644
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/lib/memcpy.c
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/lib/memcpy.c
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, __const void *src, __kernel_size_t n)
> > */
> > void *memcpy(void *dest, __const void *src, __kernel_size_t n)
> > {
> > - unsigned char *d = (unsigned char *)dest, *s = (unsigned char *)src;
> > + unsigned char *d, *s;
> > uint32_t *dest_w = (uint32_t *)dest, *src_w = (uint32_t *)src;
> >
> > /* If both source and dest are word aligned copy words */
> > --
> > 2.30.2