[PATCH v3 2/4] asm-generic: Provide a fncpy() implementation

Yury Norov ynorov at caviumnetworks.com
Mon Jun 19 08:18:18 PDT 2017


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 02:51:08AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Some questions and thoughts inline.
> 
> Yury
> 
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 05:07:42PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Define a generic fncpy() implementation largely based on the ARM version
> > that requires an 8 bytes alignment for the destination address where to
> > copy this function as well as the function's own address.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/fncpy.h | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 93 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/fncpy.h

One else thing I forgot to ask - now you have the generic
implementation for fncpy(), so do you really need to save arm
version of it?

Yury



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