From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: martin@dalecki.de, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:27:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020722152750.G2838@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207221602560.9963-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:05:00PM +0200
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:05:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there are some more IRQ subsystem cleanups for which i have patches: such
> as the removal of the pt_regs parameter from the irq handler function,
> it's unused in 99% of the drivers - and the remaining 1% can get at it via
> other means.
If "other means" means knowing that its located in a certain place on the
stack, that's actually bogus. Any user space task started via exec from
a kernel thread has extra junk on the kernel stack. Been there already.
;(
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-21 18:50 [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 19:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:41 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:59 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:26 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-21 21:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22 0:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 0:40 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 0:55 ` Robert Love
2002-07-22 13:01 ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:36 ` [patch] remove-irqlock-2.5.27-D7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:38 ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:00 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-30 9:17 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-22 13:57 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:27 ` Russell King [this message]
2002-07-22 14:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-23 6:48 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-22 1:00 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Robert Love
2002-07-21 23:43 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:47 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 23:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 22:17 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Alan Cox
2002-07-21 19:38 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Robert Love
2002-07-21 22:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:55 ` Robert Love
2002-07-21 19:58 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:42 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:18 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:23 ` Ingo Molnar
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