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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:29:18 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> For example
> you would need to special case this in uaccess.h's access_ok(), which
> would be quite a lot of overhead (any change to this function causes
> many KB of binary bloat because *_user is so heavily used all over the kernel)

That's all uninlined in the -mm patches.  Saves 33k of text.
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