From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760236AbYGRXZX (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:25:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757265AbYGRXZJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:25:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50930 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757314AbYGRXZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:25:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4881263B.7060700@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:24:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling References: <4880A912.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4880A912.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Beulich wrote: > Make the double fault handler use CPU-specific stacks. Add some > abstraction to simplify future change of other exception handlers to go > through task gates. > Add a new notification of the event through the die notifier chain, > also providing some environmental adjustments so that various > infrastructural things work independent of the fact that the fault and > the callbacks are running on other then the normal kernel stack. > > Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich > Cc: Andi Kleen This patch doesn't apply for me to the extent that I'm hesitant to fix it up manually. Could you please refresh it against current -linus? -hpa P.S. All your patches came through QP-damaged, which made them more difficult to deal with manually.