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Message-ID: <20230620105104.60cb64d8@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:04 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@...il.com>,
        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
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        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] mm/execmem: introduce execmem_data_alloc()

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 02:43:58 +0200
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> Now you might argue that it _is_ a "hotpath" due to the BPF usage, but
> then even more so as any intermediate wrapper which converts from one
> data representation to another data representation is not going to
> increase performance, right?

Just as a side note. BPF can not attach its return calling code to
functions that have more than 6 parameters (3 on 32 bit x86), because of
the way BPF return path trampoline works. It is a requirement that all
parameters live in registers, and none on the stack.

-- Steve

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