From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:34:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently
 for aarch32 and ilp32
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:33:15PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> New aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introduced to avoid run-time
> detection of the task type.

What's wrong with the run-time detection? If it's just to avoid a
negligible overhead, I would rather keep the code simpler by avoiding
duplicating the generic compat_sys_ptrace().

-- 
Catalin