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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-12-17 10:05:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-12-17 10:05:19 -0800
commit9fd4470ff4974c41b1db43c3b355b9085af9c12a (patch)
tree68a9c479852bf8e1603262f32bfda48e2f6409a9 /arch
parent5b24a7a2aa2040c8c50c3b71122901d01661ff78 (diff)
Use the new batched user accesses in generic user string handling
This converts the generic user string functions to use the batched user access functions. It makes a big difference on Skylake, which is the first x86 microarchitecture to implement SMAP. The STAC/CLAC instructions are not very fast, and doing them for each access inside the loop that copies strings from user space (which is what the pathname handling does for every pathname the kernel uses, for example) is very inefficient. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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