On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:25:16AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote: > > +unsigned long __memset_user(void __user *addr, int c, unsigned long size) > > +{ > > + long __d0; > > + unsigned long pattern = 0; > > + int i; > > + > > + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) > > + pattern = (pattern << 8) | (0xFF & c); > > That's inefficient. > > pattern = (unsigned char)c; > pattern |= pattern << 8; > pattern |= pattern << 16; > pattern |= pattern << 32; Won't pattern = 0x0101010101010101 * c; do the same but faster?