svn commit: r333266 - head/sys/amd64/amd64

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri May 4 23:03:03 UTC 2018


While i wholeheartedly agree, an earlier commit explained why in this case.
It allows the compiler to inline for small copies.

Warner

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 4:58 PM Steven Hartland <
steven.hartland at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:

> Can we get the why in commit messages please?
>
> This sort of message doesnt provide anything more that can be obtained
> from reading the diff, which just leaves us wondering why?
>
> I’m sure there is a good reason, but without confirmation we’re just left
> guessing. The knock on to this is if some assumption that caused the why
> changes, anyone looking at this will not be able to make an informed
> descision that that was the case.
>
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 23:41, Mateusz Guzik <mjg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Author: mjg
>> Date: Fri May  4 22:41:12 2018
>> New Revision: 333266
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333266
>>
>> Log:
>>   amd64: syscall path bcopy -> memcpy
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
>>
>> Modified: head/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c Fri May  4 22:33:54 2018        (r333265)
>> +++ head/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c Fri May  4 22:41:12 2018        (r333266)
>> @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ cpu_fetch_syscall_args(struct thread *td)
>>         error = 0;
>>         argp = &frame->tf_rdi;
>>         argp += reg;
>> -       bcopy(argp, sa->args, sizeof(sa->args[0]) * 6);
>> +       memcpy(sa->args, argp, sizeof(sa->args[0]) * 6);
>>         if (sa->narg > regcnt) {
>>                 KASSERT(params != NULL, ("copyin args with no params!"));
>>                 error = copyin(params, &sa->args[regcnt],
>>
>>


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