Subject: Re: Kernel copyin/out optimizations for ARM...
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 03/18/2002 12:11:02
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, David Laight wrote:

> Do you know (off hand) how big the copyin that is done for the
> arguments on every system call is?

Zero.  Most system calls take <=4 arguments, and the first four arguments
are passed to the kernel in registers.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>