Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) A big part of this all is branch mispredicts, you shouldn't
just hand it the pattern on a plate.
just hand it the pattern on a plate.
Anyway, the reason I really dislike the patch is not because I think strscpy() is all that important, but I *do* think that the word-at-a-time thing is conceptually something we do care about, and I hate removing it just because of KASAN not understanding it. Because that approach definitely makes a difference in other places.
other places.
Linus
Linus
Linus
just hand it the pattern on a plate.
Anyway, the reason I really dislike the patch is not because I think strscpy() is all that important, but I *do* think that the word-at-a-time thing is conceptually something we do care about, and I hate removing it just because of KASAN not understanding it. Because that approach definitely makes a difference in other places.
other places.
Linus
Linus
Linus
