From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:10:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 19/25] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32 In-Reply-To: <1459894127-17698-20-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> References: <1459894127-17698-1-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> <1459894127-17698-20-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> Message-ID: <20160422171009.GR2998@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:08:41AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote: > Here new aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introsuced to avoid run-time > detection of the task type. The reason for this patch isn't clear to me. What's wrong with the run-time detection? It's not some performance critical code. -- Catalin