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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:38:58 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: stat very inefficient
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:16:40 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:

> Most architectures can use a generic wrapper for that, together
> with a standard macro that clears all the padding in user space.

They can't be seperate though, I don't want:

	fill_in_stat_bits();
	zero_out_padding_parts();

because that disturbs the ascending store stream which
I'm trying to retain.

What I really want to do on Sparc64 is a special inline
assembly that looks a lot like put_user() but uses one
exception table entry for all the stores into the stat{,64}
structure in userspace.

How would you wrapper look?  Perhaps I'm confused and it
allows what I want to do.