Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Use aligned stores in memset

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

On 09/13/2017 03:12 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>> So I think the implementation constraint on the mem* functions is wrong.
>>   It leads to a slower implementation of the mem* function for most of
>> userspace which does not access device memory, and even for device
>> memory, it is probably not what you want.
> Makes sense.  But as there is nothing in the standard allowing or prohibiting
> the usage of mem* functions to access caching-inhibited memory, I thought it
> would make sense to provide functions that are as generic as possible.

But I have shown that you aren't doing that because of the GCC 
optimization which inlines the memset call.

But I won't continue this conversation as I don't see it particularly 
useful to anyone.  In the end, you are the architecture maintainers, and 
you should do what you think is best.

Thanks,
Florian