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The IO memcpy and IO memset functions in asm-generic/io.h simply call
memcpy and memset. This can lead to alignment problems or faults on
architectures that do not define their own version and fall back to
these defaults.
This patch introduces new implementations for IO memcpy and IO memset,
that use read{l,q} accessor functions, align accesses to machine word
size, and resort to byte accesses when the target memory is not aligned.
For new architectures and existing ones that were using the old
fallbacks these functions are save to use, because IO memory constraints
are taken into account. Moreover, architectures with similar
implementations can now use these new versions, not needing to implement
their own.
Reviewed-by: Yann Sionneau <ysionneau@kalrayinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Vetter <jvetter@kalrayinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Linux kernel
============
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 reStructuredText 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.