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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip V2] x86: cpu architecture debug code
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:13:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311131321.GC1074@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090311125049.GA1074@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > @@ -472,7 +473,7 @@ static void print_dt(void *seq)
> >  	print_desc_ptr("GDT", seq, dt);
> >  
> >  	/* LDT */
> > -	store_ldt(ldt);
> > +	asm volatile("sldt %0" : "=m" (ldt));
> 
> this is still wrong.

As i pointed it out before, we should not open-code an assembly 
primitive - especially since store_ldt() is available in 
arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h.

True, that primitive is not available on CONFIG_PARAVIRT, but 
that is a bug: the fix is to move the store_ldt() definition 
outside the CONFIG_PARAVIRT section in desc.h, not to hack 
around the problem by open-coding assembly code.

I.e. dont let an uncleanliness and incomplete primitive spread 
to other code. Fix the primitive and remove the uncleanliness 
that way.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 11:23 [git-pull -tip V2] x86: cpu architecture debug code Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-10 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 15:09   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-10 15:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 16:09       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-10 17:45         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 23:55           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 10:53             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 11:25               ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 11:34                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  7:34                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-13  8:07                   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 11:54           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 12:45             ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 12:50               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-11 13:13                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-11 13:43                   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-11 13:48                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13  7:37                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10 17:48         ` [tip:x86/debug] " Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-10 19:53       ` [git-pull -tip V2] " Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-03-10 22:00         ` Ingo Molnar

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