Re: [PATCH v2 21/31] arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 24 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > What good is the run-time BUG() here? Nothing should be calling these
> > when CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled, so I think you should just remove
> > the #ifdef around the declarations, and the entire #else case.
> 
> They are called from handle_signal(), so that's to avoid #ifdef inside
> functions. I can drop the BUG() (but keep the empty function) and
> change the checks to is_compat_task() so that the compiler optimises the
> condition out when !COMPAT.
> 

Sounds good. Note that you can turn a lot of #ifdef into
if(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FOO)) as well, even if there is no other runtime
check for them.

	Arnd
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