"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> I looked at the patch. It **IS** configurable. It has zero overhead on
> a normal system. It will add a few thousand instruction cycles if,
> and only if, it encounters a 'thunk' on the stack.
>
> If there are no bugs, it would be harmless. If there are bugs they
> will certainly be fixed.
>
> It is also 'testable' which is good. It's one of those things, if
> it makes you sleep better, enable it. I'd say that if it doesn't
> add too much kernel-bloat, it should be in a distribution sometime.
>
> Linus and others could see if it's 'bloat'.
Nobody is saying that it is a bad thing in itself. It just isn't
something
belonging into the mainstream.
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