On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 04:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Robert Walsh <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > Any chance we could get these moved into the x86_64 arch directory,
> > then? We have to do double-word copies, or our chip gets unhappy.
>
> Standard memcpy will do double word copies if everything is suitably
> aligned. Just use that.
This is dealing with buffers that may be passed in from user space, so
there's no guarantee of alignment for either the start address or the
length.
Regards,
Robert.
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