Re: LSM conversion to static interface

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 05:13:49 EST



On Oct 21 2007 08:57, James Morris wrote:
>> >I'd like to note that I asked people who were actually affected, and had
>> >examples of their real-world use to step forward and explain their use,
>> >and that I explicitly mentioned that this is something we can easily
>> >re-visit.
[...]

I looked at commit 20510f2f4e2dabb0ff6c13901807627ec9452f98
[havenot done much kernel activity recently] where you
transform the security interface, and what I see is that
all the static inline functions are replaced by an extern one, with the
same content. That actually seems to include more performance hit
than the (un)registering fluff. Why is that, actually?
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