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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: broken local_t on i386
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:29:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606121929.47443.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606121008340.19562@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Monday 12 June 2006 19:11, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Also on non preemptive kernels - which are the majority - it's a single
> > instruction on x86. I guess preempt users can live with a bit more
> > overhead ...
>
> I hope you will be fixing the cpu_local_* macros for i386 and x86_64 

Yes I will disable preemption.

> and add some appropriate docs? 

What docs? I don't have plan to write any for this.

> Are there any existing uses in the kernel? 

There aren't.

Another way would be to just remove them for now and readd in a fixed
version if needed.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-10  4:40 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 10:23 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-10 16:24   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 16:43     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 16:51       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 17:03         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 18:04           ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 18:14             ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-10 18:31               ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 18:35                 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-12 11:05                 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-12 11:48                   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-12 12:14                     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 13:07                       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-12 13:41                         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-06-13  3:28                       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Keith Owens
2006-06-13  4:56                         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-06-13  5:08                           ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Keith Owens
2006-06-13  5:18                             ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-06-13  5:43                               ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Nick Piggin
2006-06-13  5:48                                 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 11:45                             ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-13 12:41                               ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Keith Owens
2006-06-12 16:37                     ` broken local_t on i386 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 16:48                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 16:54                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 17:06                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 17:11                             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 17:29                               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-12 18:14                             ` Lee Revell
2006-06-12 18:46                               ` Alan Cox
2006-06-12 18:27                             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 17:35                               ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 18:42                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 17:55                                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 18:59                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 18:11                                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 19:15                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13  3:36                                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 20:12                                         ` Alan Cox
2006-06-13  4:02                                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 13:50                   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-12 14:20                     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2006-06-12 14:57                       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
     [not found]               ` <6bffcb0e0606101126v55cc20dbk275d8aa7fdcb0f1a@mail.gmail.com>
2006-06-10 18:36                 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 19:08                   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-10 16:58       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 14:56 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2006-06-10 14:56   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
2006-06-10 15:40   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Felix Oxley
2006-06-10 16:43   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 16:43     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 16:18 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Dominik Karall
2006-06-10 16:25   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-10 17:42     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Dominik Karall
2006-06-10 18:43       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-06-11 10:17         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-11 10:58           ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-06-12 16:56 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Zan Lynx
2006-06-12 17:35 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Cedric Le Goater
2006-06-12 20:55   ` Fwd: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-12 22:16   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13  0:24     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-14 21:56       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Trond Myklebust
2006-06-13  7:22     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Cedric Le Goater
2006-06-13 17:54       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13 19:35         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13 20:22           ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Cedric Le Goater
2006-06-13 21:13             ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13 21:50               ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Cedric Le Goater
2006-06-12 18:19 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2006-06-12 20:48   ` Fwd: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-13 13:54   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-13 17:04     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2006-06-12 22:09 ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Steve Fox
2006-06-13 13:54   ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-13 14:10     ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Sergei Shtylyov
2006-06-13 19:01       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Steve Fox
2006-06-13 21:43       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Andrew Morton
2006-06-13 21:51       ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Badari Pulavarty
2006-06-13 22:36         ` 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 Steve Fox

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