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Kernel: Don't use MMX memcpy() in the kernel.

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I just discovered the hard way that clobbering FPU/MMX/SSE registers in the
kernel makes things very confusing for userspace (and other kernel threads.)

Let's banish all of those things from the kernel to keep things simple.
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Andreas Kling 2019-04-22 17:13:18 +02:00
parent 1d02c7b6f1
commit 6693cfb26a
3 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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Kernel/StdLib.cpp
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@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ extern "C" {
void* memcpy(void* dest_ptr, const void* src_ptr, size_t n)
{
if (n >= 1024) {
#ifndef KERNEL
if (n >= 1024)
return mmx_memcpy(dest_ptr, src_ptr, n);
}
#endif
size_t dest = (size_t)dest_ptr;
size_t src = (size_t)src_ptr;