On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > However, __memzero is not safe against being called with a zero length > > so it's not something we can simply remove. > > The idea is about the possibility of removing __memzero altogether. > It is not clear that the tiny performance gain from a dedicated memzero > implementation is worth the current overhead around it.
This being said, I fail to see how __memzero is not safe against a zero length. Are you sure it isn't? Nicolas