Re: [PATCH 19/25] arm64: ptrace: handle ptrace_request differently for aarch32 and ilp32

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:10:09PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:08:41AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > Here new aarch32 ptrace syscall handler is introsuced to avoid run-time
> > detection of the task type.
> 
> The reason for this patch isn't clear to me. What's wrong with the
> run-time detection? It's not some performance critical code.
> 
> -- 
> Catalin

Hi Catalin,

It was requested by Arnd, 
It's not 'new' syscall basically,
just an attempt to avoid run-time 
detection of things that may be
detected an compile-time.

Yury.
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