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Subject: Re: new execve/kernel_thread design
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> IIRC, the lack of comments on function with unusual calling conventions was
> the last remaining issue...

Stylistically other asm functions have huge block header
comments detailing register usage. But typically those
are way more complex. I think your inline comments
work fine here.

-Tony