From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37345 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965445AbWJBVzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:55:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:47:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Message-ID: <20061002214732.GA11451@elte.hu> References: <20061002162049.17763.39576.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002140121.f588b463.akpm@osdl.org> <200610022319.59029.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , David Howells , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH , David Brownell , Alan Stern List-ID: * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > How would you test something like this? It would touch all > > architectures and nearly all drivers too. > > "If it compiles, it works". > > Pretty close. Note that the IRQ threading code in the -rt tree already passes NULL as the pt_regs argument to /all/ drivers [except the timer interrupt]. So there's more than just the compilation evidence ;-) Ingo