Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 22 May 2002 14:47:40 +0100 (BST)

> I believe I seen some strange memcpy for PPro (or something that
> obscure) that done out-of-order accesses to trigger prefetch logic. I
> can't find it any more, so I can't be sure...

Its festering quietly in the glibc source tree where all large and
dubiously justifiable hacks seem to end up

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