On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Andi Kleen wrote: > My preference would be just to drop this new super ugly system call. > > It's also not just the ugliness, but the very large attack surface > that worries me here. > > As far as I know it is only needed to support single stepping, correct? I can't figure that out because the changelog describes only WHAT the patch does and not WHY. Useful, isn't it? > Then this whole mess would disappear. Agreed. That would be much appreciated. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
