Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/8] start unifying termios convertors

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> +static inline int kernel_termios_to_user_termios(struct termios2 __user *u,
> +						 struct ktermios *k)
> +{
> +	int err;
> +	err  = put_user(k->c_iflag, &u->c_iflag);
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_oflag, &u->c_oflag);
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_cflag, &u->c_cflag);
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_lflag, &u->c_lflag);
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_line, &u->c_line);
> +	err |= copy_to_user(u->c_cc, k->c_cc, NCCS);
> +	if (!(k->c_lflag & ICANON)) {
> +		err |= put_user(k->c_cc[VMIN],  &u->c_cc[_VMIN]);
> +		err |= put_user(k->c_cc[VTIME], &u->c_cc[_VTIME]);
> +	} else {
> +		err |= put_user(k->c_cc[VEOF], &u->c_cc[VEOF]);
> +		err |= put_user(k->c_cc[VEOL], &u->c_cc[VEOL]);
> +	}
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_ispeed, &u->c_ispeed);
> +	err |= put_user(k->c_ospeed, &u->c_ospeed);
> +	return err;
> +}

Can you make this use || instead of |= ?  That way if put_user() uses a
goto-out-of-asm it may be a lot more efficient, both in the normal case and
the error case.

David