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    MIPS: Drop 32-bit asm string functions · 3c0be584
    Paul Burton authored
    We have assembly implementations of strcpy(), strncpy(), strcmp() &
    strncmp() which:
    
     - Are simple byte-at-a-time loops with no particular optimizations. As
       a comment in the code describes, they're "rather naive".
    
     - Offer no clear performance advantage over the generic C
       implementations - in microbenchmarks performed by Alexander Lobakin
       the asm functions sometimes win & sometimes lose, but generally not
       by large margins in either direction.
    
     - Don't support 64-bit kernels, where we already make use of the
       generic C implementations.
    
     - Tend to bloat kernel code size due to inlining.
    
     - Don't support CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
    
     - Won't support nanoMIPS without rework.
    
    For all of these reasons, delete the asm implementations & make use of
    the generic C implementations for 32-bit kernels just like we already do
    for 64-bit kernels.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
    URL: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/a2a35f1cf58d6db19eb4af9b4ae21e35@dlink.ru/
    Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
    Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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