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Re: Pointer chain paranoia


The deref macro expands to code that is quite cheap.  The inline code is
just the load instruction about like the compiler would normally generate.
The extra code is in the exception-handling lookaside section, which adds
bloat to the total .ko size but not to the normal module code paths that
will ever be occupying I-cache in normal operation.


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