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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Removing call to function pointer in inner loop of copy_from_user()
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:48:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050516184857.GA8171@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505161904.14197.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> I could move maybe move sigsetjmp to kernelspace code; 

How are you going to get a definition of jmp_buf in there?

> however, another 
> possibility would be to use the exception handler tables we've always 
> supported without using them (only drawback is that the code *must* be 
> inlined, and possibly the need for some assembler code, which however is 
> probably avoidable).

Maybe.  That's worth looking in to.  I've used the setjmp scheme in preference
to that because it's portable, but maybe we should switch back in some places.

				Jeff


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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15 18:44 [uml-devel] Removing call to function pointer in inner loop of copy_from_user() Blaisorblade
2005-05-16 15:00 ` Jeff Dike
2005-05-16 17:04   ` Blaisorblade
2005-05-16 18:48     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-05-16 21:27       ` Blaisorblade

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