linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32

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Message-ID: <20161205163422.GG14429@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:34:23 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently
 for aarch32 and ilp32

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().

-- 
Catalin