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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
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On 03/08/16 10:45, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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> s/modern/most, perhaps?
>
> I'm hoping that some day Bionic goes away and gets replaced by musl.
>
> Of course, musl doesn't always use fast syscalls because it needs a
> vdso facility that doesn't currently exist. I'll deal with that
> eventually.
>

You don't actually need actual DSO support to support fast system calls
on i386. Even klibc uses them now, and the additional code to support
it is trivial.

-hpa


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