On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:50:39 PM CEST David Miller wrote:

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 22:47:33 +0200

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If we use the normal calling conventions, we could remove these overrides
along with the respective special-case handling in glibc. None of them
look particularly performance-sensitive, but I could be wrong there.

You could set the lowest bit in the system call entry pointer to indicate
the upper-half clears should be elided.

Right, but that would introduce an extra conditional branch in the syscall
hotpath, and likely eliminate the gains from passing the loff_t arguments
in a single register instead of a pair.

	Arnd