string: improve default out-of-line memcmp() implementation
This just does the "if the architecture does efficient unaligned handling, start the memcmp using 'unsigned long' accesses", since Nikolay Borisov found a load that cares. This is basically the minimal patch, and limited to architectures that are known to not have slow unaligned handling. We've had the stupid byte-at-a-time version forever, and nobody has ever even noticed before, so let's keep the fix minimal. A potential further improvement would be to align one of the sources in order to at least minimize unaligned cases, but the only real case of bigger memcmp() users seems to be the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl(). As David Sterba says, the dedupe ioctl is typically called on ranges spanning many pages so the common case will all be page-aligned anyway. All the relevant architectures select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, so I'm not going to worry about the combination of a very rare use-case and a rare architecture until somebody actually hits it. Particularly since Nikolay also tested the more complex patch with extra alignment handling code, and it only added overhead. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210721135926.602840-1-nborisov@suse.com/Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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