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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: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> URL: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/a2a35f1cf58d6db19eb4af9b4ae21e35@dlink.ru/ Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.