Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] exec: unify native/compat code

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:48:03 -0800

> Well, the thing is, on architectures that _can_ pass by value, it
> avoids one indirection.
> 
> And if you do pass it on stack, then the code generated will be the
> same as if we passed a pointer. So sparc may not be able to take
> advantage of the optimization, but I don't think the code generation
> would be worse.

That's a good point, the situation here is different than the page table
one.
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