Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
22 Oct 2002 10:39:16 +0100


On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 05:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > For example
> > you would need to special case this in uaccess.h's access_ok(), which
> > would be quite a lot of overhead (any change to this function causes
> > many KB of binary bloat because *_user is so heavily used all over the kernel)
>
> That's all uninlined in the -mm patches. Saves 33k of text.

I assume it saves a sizable amount of exception tables too ?

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