On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:54:22PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > BTW, the kernel would be smaller by moving all the asm around __copy_user > > in __copy_user itself. I am currently doing that. The cost is an added > > 'jr' to jump to __memcpy. Do you think it is worthwhile to do that ? > > What asm do you mean? I mean the code in arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S. It is possible to modify __copy_user so that it has exactly the same calling convention of a C function. Then, no asm is necessary in uaccess.h. It costs us a supplementary jump. Fabrice.
