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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo (v2)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 06:54:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701080654.27100.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070108104347.83a004aa.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Monday 08 January 2007 00:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > +asmlinkage long sys_sysinfo(struct sysinfo __user *info)
> > +{
> > +     struct sysinfo val;
> > +
> > +     do_sysinfo(&val);
> >
> > - out:
> >       if (copy_to_user(info, &val, sizeof(struct sysinfo)))
> >               return -EFAULT;
> 
> People have complined before that this adds a whole stack frame to the
> "normal" syscall path.  Personally I don't care, but it has been
> mentioned.

It might be a concern for something like 'read' which is called frequently
and in strange ways, but for 'sysinfo' this really should not matter.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-07 14:48 [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo Kyle McMartin
2007-01-07 15:13 ` [parisc-linux] " Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 15:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 15:18   ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2007-01-07 15:18   ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]     ` <119aab440701071422x2041a7b9lf5361c15a001d954@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-07 22:31       ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]       ` <20070107223130.GR24620@parisc-linux.org>
2007-01-07 23:27         ` Randolph Chung
     [not found]         ` <45A181E2.9020609@tausq.org>
2007-01-07 23:39           ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]           ` <20070107233931.GT24620@parisc-linux.org>
2007-01-08  1:48             ` Randolph Chung
2007-01-07 15:22   ` Kyle McMartin
2007-01-07 15:22   ` Kyle McMartin
2007-01-07 15:40     ` [parisc-linux] [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo (v2) Kyle McMartin
2007-01-07 15:40     ` Kyle McMartin
2007-01-07 23:43       ` [parisc-linux] " Stephen Rothwell
2007-01-07 23:43       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-01-08  5:54         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-01-08  7:29           ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-01-08  7:29           ` [parisc-linux] " Stephen Rothwell
2007-01-08  5:54         ` Arnd Bergmann

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