Re: [PATCH 3/4] string: introduce memchr_inv

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:52:18 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +	value64 = value | value << 8 | value << 16 | value << 24;
> > +	value64 = (value64 & 0xffffffff) | value64 << 32;
> > +	prefix = 8 - ((unsigned long)start) % 8;
> > +
> > +	if (prefix) {
> > +		u8 *r = check_bytes8(start, value, prefix);
> > +		if (r)
> > +			return r;
> > +		start += prefix;
> > +		bytes -= prefix;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	words = bytes / 8;
> > +
> > +	while (words) {
> > +		if (*(u64 *)start != value64)
> 
> OK, problem.  This will explode if passed a misaligned address on
> certain (non-x86) architectures.

pls ignore.  As Marcin points out, I can't read.
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