linux/arch/x86
Linus Torvalds 1e2aec873a Merge branch 'generic-string-functions'
This makes <asm/word-at-a-time.h> actually live up to its promise of
allowing architectures to help tune the string functions that do their
work a word at a time.

David had already taken the x86 strncpy_from_user() function, modified
it to work on sparc, and then done the extra work to make it generically
useful.  This then expands on that work by making x86 use that generic
version, completing the circle.

But more importantly, it fixes up the word-at-a-time interfaces so that
it's now easy to also support things like strnlen_user(), and pretty
much most random string functions.

David reports that it all works fine on sparc, and Jonas Bonn reported
that an earlier version of this worked on OpenRISC too.  It's pretty
easy for architectures to add support for this and just replace their
private versions with the generic code.

* generic-string-functions:
  sparc: use the new generic strnlen_user() function
  x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() function
  lib: add generic strnlen_user() function
  word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic
  x86: use generic strncpy_from_user routine
2012-05-26 16:57:16 -07:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-23 11:16:40 -07:00
configs x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs 2012-03-24 08:18:03 +01:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - move more common code to ablk_init_common 2012-05-15 17:25:33 +10:00
ia32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-05-23 18:11:45 -07:00
include/asm x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() function 2012-05-26 11:33:54 -07:00
kernel x86/mce merge window patches (including two that make error_context() checks less sucky) 2012-05-25 16:14:12 -07:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2012-05-24 16:17:30 -07:00
lguest lguest: Make sure interrupt is allocated ok by lguest_setup_irq 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
lib x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() function 2012-05-26 11:33:54 -07:00
math-emu x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct 2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-05-23 17:42:39 -07:00
net bpf jit: Let the x86 jit handle negative offsets 2012-04-03 18:01:41 -04:00
oprofile x86: Factor out TIF_IA32 from 32-bit address space 2012-02-20 12:48:46 -08:00
pci Features: 2012-05-24 16:02:08 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-23 11:16:40 -07:00
power x86, kvm: Call restore_sched_clock_state() only after %gs is initialized 2012-04-02 13:53:00 +02:00
syscalls Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
tools x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist 2012-05-24 07:16:18 -07:00
um Merge branch 'x86-extable-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-23 10:44:35 -07:00
vdso Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
video x86: Use vga_default_device() when determining whether an fb is primary 2012-04-24 09:50:17 +01:00
xen Features: 2012-05-24 16:02:08 -07:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig x86: use the new generic strnlen_user() function 2012-05-26 11:33:54 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32 2012-03-08 10:57:34 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-11 19:13:40 -08:00
Makefile md updates for 3.5 2012-05-23 17:08:40 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: fix linker script generation 2012-04-09 13:59:00 -04:00