On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So why should an alternatives-CALL, inlined directly into call sites,
> cost more kernel space?

Not the alternatives CALL alone but inlining _copy_*_user with all the
preparation glue around it would. Basically what we're doing currently.

See how uninlining copy_user_generic() dropped text size from 12375798 to
12269658.

But let me do some more staring...

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    Boris.

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