[PATCH] Fix v9/64-bit strcmp when string ends in multiple zero bytes.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 05/01/2014 12:05 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 01:34:01 -0400
> 
>> On 04/30/2014 04:00 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>> +    {
>>> +      int exp_result;
>>> +
>>> +      for (CHAR val = 0x01; val < 0x10; val++)
>>
>> Permute over all char values e.g. [0x1,0xff] or val < 0x100;
> 
> I tried that already, just making this change alone causes the test to
> take minutes rather then just a few seconds.
> 
> I'll see if I can mitigate the cost and still add the extra coverage.

Perhaps not all values, but just values with interesting patterns then?

for (CHAR val = 0x01; val < 0x100; val << 1) ?

Cheers,
Carlos.