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  • Kirill Smelkov
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  • string.c
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  • Nick Desaulniers's avatar
    lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp · 56dbdae0
    Nick Desaulniers authored Apr 05, 2019
    [ Upstream commit 5f074f3e ]
    
    A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the
    return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value
    of bcmp against zero.  This helps some platforms that implement bcmp
    more efficiently than memcmp.  glibc simply aliases bcmp to memcmp, but
    an optimized implementation is in the works.
    
    This results in linkage failures for all targets with Clang due to the
    undefined symbol.  For now, just implement bcmp as a tailcail to memcmp
    to unbreak the build.  This routine can be further optimized in the
    future.
    
    Other ideas discussed:
    
     * A weak alias was discussed, but breaks for architectures that define
       their own implementations of memcmp since aliases to declarations are
       not permitted (only definitions). Arch-specific memcmp
       implementations typically declare memcmp in C headers, but implement
       them in assembly.
    
     * -ffreestanding also is used sporadically throughout the kernel.
    
     * -fno-builtin-bcmp doesn't work when doing LTO.
    
    Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
    Link: https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/string/memcmp.c.html#bcmp
    Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
    Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313211335.165605-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
    Suggested-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Suggested-by: default avatarJames Y Knight <jyknight@google.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
    Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    56dbdae0
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