Re: [PATCH 3/6] seccomp: Implement constant action bitmaps

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:15 AM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

I was trying to be helpful: you hadn't seen the RFC, and it was missing
the emulator piece, which I wanted to be small, so I put got it out the
door today. I didn't want you to think you needed to port the larger
emulator over, for example.

There's no architecture-dependent code in the emulator. It just has to
iterate through all the arch numbers. So I don't know what you are
referring to by "port ... over".
The logic is simple. If the emulator determines the filter must be an
allow for a given arch / syscall pair, then it is "cached by bitmap".

I'm open to ideas, but I want to have a non-optional performance
improvement as the first step. :)

How about "performance improvement by default"? It's not like most end
users / distros would turn off something that's enabled by default
when they upgrade to a new kernel.

YiFei Zhu