Re: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32

From: Yury Norov
Date: Tue Dec 06 2016 - 01:25:39 EST


On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:34:23PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:33:15PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > New aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introduced to avoid run-time
> > detection of the task type.
>
> What's wrong with the run-time detection? If it's just to avoid a
> negligible overhead, I would rather keep the code simpler by avoiding
> duplicating the generic compat_sys_ptrace().

Nothing wrong. This is how Arnd asked me to do. You already asked this
question: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.3/00930.html

If it's still looking weird to you, I can switch back to runtime
ptrace. But I'd like to see Arnd's opinion.

Yury.