From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Xen merge mainline list <xen-merge@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-merge] [patch] SMP alternatives for i386
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:32:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439EF797.1060102@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439EEA67.6010706@vmware.com>
> Overall technically, I like this patch. Philosophically, I agree with
> it as well - but might I strongly suggest that you avoid the .section
> .previous directives and use the nestable .pushsection, .popsection
> instead? We are almost to the complexity point with fault handling and
> alternatives that we will need nested section overrides.
Fortunaly we don't need that at the moment. And in case we'll really
need it some day it will not be *that* easy. The pointers in the fixup
section will point to the wrong location because we run the UP code not
in-place but copy it to another address ...
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 15:22 [patch] SMP alternatives for i386 Gerd Knorr
2005-12-13 15:36 ` [Xen-merge] " Zachary Amsden
2005-12-13 16:32 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2005-12-13 15:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14 19:35 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-14 20:15 ` [Xen-merge] " Keir Fraser
2005-12-15 1:20 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-15 13:44 ` Gerd Knorr
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