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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Corallo <andrea.corallo@arm.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org,  nd@arm.com,  Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aarch64: MTE compatible strchrnul
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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:27:45 +0200
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* Andrea Corallo:

> Introduce an Arm MTE compatible strchrnul implementation.
>
> Benchmarked on Cortex-A72, Cortex-A53, Neoverse N1 does not show
> performance regressions.
>
> Co-authored-by: Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>

As a very high-level comment, I would expect some sort of markup in the
file that this implementation is now MTE-safe, similar to what we have
for executable stacks.

Or do you plan to handle that in some other fashion?

Thanks,
Florian