[PATCH] readdir speedup and fixes
2.5 is 20% slower than 2.4 in an AIM9 test which is just running readdir across /bin. A lot of this is due to lots of tiny calls to copy_to_user() in fs/readdir.c. The patch speeds up that test by 50%, so it's comfortably faster than 2.4. Also, there were lots of unchecked copy_to_user() and put_user() calls in there. Fixed all that up as well. The patch assumes that each arch has a working 64-bit put_user(), which appears to be the case.
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