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

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:55:08 +0530
From:   Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently
 for aarch32 and ilp32

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.

Yury.