Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:57:21 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/25] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32 |
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:40:13AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:10:09PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:08:41AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote: > > > Here new aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introsuced to avoid run-time > > > detection of the task type. > > > > The reason for this patch isn't clear to me. What's wrong with the > > run-time detection? It's not some performance critical code. > > It was requested by Arnd, It's not 'new' syscall basically, just an > attempt to avoid run-time detection of things that may be detected an > compile-time.
OK. I noticed that it touches core files and wondering whether it was necessary but I'm fine with this approach.
-- Catalin
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