Re: [PATCH v5 15/30] arm64/sve: Signal handling support

Will Deacon
2017-12-11T14:07:20Z

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