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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32
    On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 11:55:08AM +0530, Yury Norov wrote:
    > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:34:23PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
    > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:33:15PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
    > > > New aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introduced to avoid run-time
    > > > detection of the task type.
    > >
    > > What's wrong with the run-time detection? If it's just to avoid a
    > > negligible overhead, I would rather keep the code simpler by avoiding
    > > duplicating the generic compat_sys_ptrace().
    >
    > Nothing wrong. This is how Arnd asked me to do. You already asked this
    > question: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.3/00930.html
    >
    > If it's still looking weird to you, I can switch back to runtime
    > ptrace. But I'd like to see Arnd's opinion.

    This is the Arnd's email:
    https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7980521/

    Yury.

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