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SubjectRe: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.
Hi!

> > I believe I seen some strange memcpy for PPro (or something that
> > obscure) that done out-of-order accesses to trigger prefetch logic. I
> > can't find it any more, so I can't be sure...
>
> Its festering quietly in the glibc source tree where all large and
> dubiously justifiable hacks seem to end up

In such case, linus, here is your "reasonable" example. For PPro, it
is faster to copy out-of-order, and if we wanted to use that for
copy_to_user, you'd have your example.
Pavel
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