From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:52:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002235246.GA27274@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000610021343h45bf1414ica2246f3b10ff46d@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:43:38PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:21:09 +0100
> >David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used
> >instead
> >> of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in
> >the
> >> Linux kernel.
> >>
>
> Nice! I was wanting to do that for a long time...
Yeah! Finally get rid of that from every single fricken USB urb
callback. I have been wanting that gone for a very long time.
> >I think the change is good. But I don't want to maintain this whopper
> >out-of-tree for two months! If we want to do this, we should just smash it
> >in and grit our teeth.
>
> Yes, lets drop it in while we still not reached rc1.
I don't care when it goes it, I have no objection to it at all.
David, thanks a lot for doing this.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 16:20 [PATCH 1/3] IRQ: Typedef the IRQ flow handler function type David Howells
2006-10-02 16:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] IRQ: Typedef the IRQ " David Howells
[not found] ` <20061002162053.17763.26032.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
2006-10-02 20:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 20:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-02 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 21:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 21:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-02 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 21:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-02 21:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-02 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 10:43 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <fa.v9OUIBlFjbmpdm2jHjUOj/6fm5Y@ifi.uio.no>
2006-10-07 18:44 ` Bill Waddington
2006-10-02 21:12 ` David Miller
2006-10-02 21:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-02 22:59 ` Karsten Wiese
2006-10-03 0:36 ` Dave Airlie
2006-10-03 10:21 ` David Howells
2006-10-05 8:01 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-03 10:01 ` David Howells
2006-10-03 10:30 ` David Howells
2006-10-02 20:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-02 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 23:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-10-02 20:46 ` David Brownell
2006-10-02 20:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 21:34 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-02 21:34 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-02 23:00 ` David Brownell
2006-10-03 18:03 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-06 3:45 ` David Brownell
2006-10-06 17:42 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-05 14:22 ` David Howells
2006-10-05 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-05 20:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-05 20:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-05 20:34 ` Greg KH
2006-10-05 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 1:31 ` [PATCH] powerpc: irq change build breaks Olof Johansson
2006-10-06 1:31 ` Olof Johansson
2006-10-06 4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-06 4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-06 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Russell King
2006-10-06 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-07 2:54 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-07 2:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-07 14:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-07 14:44 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-06 18:53 ` [PATCH] fix mesh compile errors after irq changes Olaf Hering
2006-10-06 19:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-06 20:34 ` [PATCH] powerpc: fixup " Olaf Hering
2006-10-06 20:52 ` [PATCH] powerpc: spu " Olaf Hering
2006-10-06 21:06 ` [PATCH] ppc: PReP " Olaf Hering
2006-10-07 0:19 ` [PATCH] powerpc: " Paul Mackerras
2006-10-07 12:25 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-06 0:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-06 11:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 11:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-06 11:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-06 14:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-06 14:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 15:18 ` [PATCH, RAW] IRQ: Maintain irq number " Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 15:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 16:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-06 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 16:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06 8:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer " Gregor Jasny
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2006-09-12 14:58 [PATCH 1/3] IRQ: Typedef the IRQ flow handler function type David Howells
2006-09-12 16:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers David Howells
2006-10-03 0:10 ` Keith Owens
2006-10-03 9:54 ` David Howells
2006-10-04 3:26 ` Keith Owens
2006-10-05 14:24 ` David Howells
2006-10-05 14:26 ` David Howells
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