Re: Mostly portable strnlen_user()

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Apart from a thinko in the aligned_byte_mask definition (it's wrong
> for 32-bit big-endian), it looks fine.  You're right about it not
> getting very far at all; my 32-bit powerbook couldn't even mount
> root.  I have sent a patch for that and one to use this stuff on
> powerpc - without Ben's ack since he is off sick at the moment.

Ahh. OpenRISC is 64-bit, and apparently David never tested 32-bit
sparc. I'd tested it on both x86-63 and i386, but those obviously
wouldn't have shown any big-endian issues.

Thanks,

                    Linus
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