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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 05:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I assume it saves a sizable amount of exception tables too ?

Strangely, no.  3/4 came from .text and 1/4 from __ex_table.
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