Re: [PATCH v2 20/31] arm64: User access library function

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:49:54PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It's fairly unusual to have out of line get_user/put_user functions.
> What is the reason for this, other than copying from ARM?

Actually, we never used to out of line on ARM, and then I experimented,
and found there was a net benefit - not only in code size but also
there appeared to be a performance benefit by out of lining them.
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