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Re: [PATCH v5 15/30] arm64/sve: Signal handling support
- From: Will Deacon <will dot deacon at arm dot com>
- To: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium dot org>
- Cc: Dave Martin <Dave dot Martin at arm dot com>, linux-arm-kernel at lists dot infradead dot org, linux-arch <linux-arch at vger dot kernel dot org>, Okamoto Takayuki <tokamoto at jp dot fujitsu dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard dot biesheuvel at linaro dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin dot marinas at arm dot com>, Alex Bennée <alex dot bennee at linaro dot org>, kvmarm at lists dot cs dot columbia dot edu
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:07:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 15/30] arm64/sve: Signal handling support
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:50:38AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> My question is mainly: why not just use copy_*() everywhere instead?
> Having these things so spread out makes it fragile, and there's very
> little performance benefit from using __copy_*() over copy_*().
I think that's more of a general question. Why not just remove the __
versions from the kernel entirely if they're not worth the perf?
Will