Merging some linux/generic code into linux?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 31 Dec 2015 19:12, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > architectures? I am not sure if passing one more argument to the
> > syscalls really changes the performances.
> 
> Well, it probably increases code size compared to using the direct 
> syscalls where available.

i'm not entirely sure about this.  at least for cancellable syscalls,
i think the overhead of that logic is greater than argument shuffling.
would be good to gather real data here though.

> But some unification makes sense in at least a 
> subset of cases: those where the generic/ code is actually needed on some 
> other architectures as well.  E.g. umount (bug 16552).

those arches can still directly #include files ...
-mike
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