Re: [PATCH 2/2] string: improve strlen performance

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu May 02 2024 - 11:38:59 EST


On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:10:32AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 06:03:04PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 5:59 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM Hsin-Yu.Chen <harry021633@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > And on top of that, check what this code will do on the architectures
> > that do not support unaligned access. If everything is fine, mention
> > this in the commit message. Btw, your commit message needs
> > elaboration, e.g., pointing to the test case (which is absent in this
> > patch, I assume it's already in the kernel?) and step-by-step
> > instructions on how you got the mentioned results with details of the
> > hardware you used for that.
>
> I might be worth looking at the implementation of strscpy(), which is
> doing similar multi-byte steps and handles unaligned access.

Right, we have a word-at-a-time.h or alike for this things.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko