On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:01:44PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:39:29PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> 
> > BTW, what is the operational distinction between syscall_plain() and
> > syscall_fancy()?
> 
> Fancy handles tracing (like ktrace), plain does not. The syscall handler is
> noted in struct mdproc and entered through an indirect call. For CPUs that
> actually matter, indirect calls are more expensive than a couple of simple
> test+branch pairs, and maintaining 2x the number of syscall paths is a pain.
> So they should be merged.

Isn't that indirection also used for the emulation system call entry?

But I do agree that having 2 copies of the same code is stupid.

	David

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