6a31ffdfed
Merge minor word-at-a-time instruction choice improvements for x86 and arm64. This is the second of four branches that came out of me looking at the code generation for path lookup on arm64. The word-at-a-time infrastructure is used to do string operations in chunks of one word both when copying the pathname from user space (in strncpy_from_user()), and when parsing and hashing the individual path components (in link_path_walk()). In particular, the "find the first zero byte" uses various bit tricks to figure out the end of the string or path component, and get the length without having to do things one byte at a time. Both x86-64 and arm64 had less than optimal code choices for that. The commit message for the arm64 change in particular tries to explain the exact code flow for the zero byte finding for people who care. It's made a bit more complicated by the fact that we support big-endian hardware too, and so we have some extra abstraction layers to allow different models for finding the zero byte, quite apart from the issue of picking specialized instructions. * word-at-a-time: arm64: word-at-a-time: improve byte count calculations for LE x86-64: word-at-a-time: improve byte count calculations
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