Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:01:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sparc, exec: remove redundant addr_limit assignment |
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > The reason the test is only in this specific spot, is that's the only > place where the optimization makes any sense.
Well, considering that it didn't make any sense there *either*, that's kind of pointless.
We always had the unconditional "set_fs()" in the exec path. It only got moved, and as part of that conscious effort, the pointless architecture churn is getting cleaned up.
Linus
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