Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] x86: two-phase syscall tracing and seccomp fastpath

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 12:57:35 EST


On 07/30/2014 10:25 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> And yet x86_64 has this code implemented in assembly even in the
> slowpath. Go figure.
>

There is way too much assembly in entry_64.S probably because things
have been grafted on, ahem, "organically". It is darn nigh impossible
to even remotely figure out what goes on in that file.

-hpa


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