Re: sparc32: some more testing

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From: Marcel van Nies <morcles@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 01:28:31 +0200

> I could actually bisect it down to this:
> 
> commit 4d14a459857bd151ecbd14bcd37b4628da00792b
> Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Dec 10 23:32:10 2009 -0800
> 
>     sparc: Stop trying to be so fancy and use __builtin_{memcpy,memset}()

I suspect the previous code was hiding cache aliasing effects and thus
cache handling bugs by using the Hypersparc optimized page copy block
op.
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