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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:14:10 -0500
From: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, 
	Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@...gle.com>, Eric Paris <netdev@...isplace.org>, 
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Subject: Re: seccomp and ptrace. what is the correct order?

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 01:48 PM, Will Drewry wrote:
>>
>> That was my first thought too, so I ran a few simple tests.  gcc isn't
>> smart enough to not add ~344 bytes of code to get the number and
>> arguments for the x86/kernel/ptrace.c case I included (in the
>> naive-est of integrations).  But I don't know that it justifies the
>> extra patchwork or enforcing shared code across arches.
>>
>
> I suspect the construction of those inlines can be improved.

Seems likely - or just my use of them :)

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