On 06/02/2015 09:34 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 21:04:01 +0200 > Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This macro is small, has only four callsites, and one of them is >> slightly different using a conditional parameter. >> >> A few saved lines aren't worth the resulting obfuscation. > > I'm curious, why? Did someone recommend this change?
I'm proposing to do this. Of course, I don't expect that any my patch must be accepted. > I don't see it as obfuscation at all. Riddle me this, looking at the current code. What's up with that strange manipulations of %r9 register? Why the code in SYSCALL and SYSENTER entry points is not the same, why "r9 dance" is done only in one of these entry points? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
