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Re: Merging some linux/generic code into linux?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:12:22 +0000
- Subject: Re: Merging some linux/generic code into linux?
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> architectures? I am not sure if passing one more argument to the
> syscalls really changes the performances.
Well, it probably increases code size compared to using the direct
syscalls where available. But some unification makes sense in at least a
subset of cases: those where the generic/ code is actually needed on some
other architectures as well. E.g. umount (bug 16552).
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Joseph S. Myers
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