[PATCH] aarch64: MTE compatible strchrnul

Andrea Corallo andrea.corallo@arm.com
Wed Jun 3 16:01:35 GMT 2020


Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:

> On 03/06/2020 06:43, Andrea Corallo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'd like to submit this patch introducing an Arm MTE compatible
>> strchrnul implementation.
>> 
>> Follows a performance comparison of the strchrnul benchmark run on 
>> Cortex-A72, Cortex-A53, Neoverse N1.
>
> How these performance numbers were calculated? Did you use glibc benchtests
> or an external one?

Yes the glibc benchtests has been used, forgot to mention sorry.

> Besides it the commit message does not give an overall description of 
> which changes it does to the generic implementation neither the requirements
> of MTE support.

I'll improve the commit message as suggested.  Regarding the MTE
requirements given the function is backward compatible not sure what
should be mentioned.

Thanks

  Andrea


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