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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:46:16 +0300
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] x86_64: memset_user()
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:29:46PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> Depends on your CPU. Some yes, some no.
>
> (Also you need to cast 'c' to unsigned char to avoid someone passing in
> 0x1234 and getting 0x4646464646464634 instead of 0x3434343434343434)
Cast to unsigned char is needed in any case. And as far as I remember
we've been using this multiplication trick for a really long time
in x86 land. I'm out of sources right now but it should be somewhere
in assembly libs.
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