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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:02:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488DD176.50600@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488DECD9.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
>> Firstly, 64-bit does not use a task gate for double faults anymore. (but 
>> uses a separate IST stack for double faults)
> 
> Sure - because there are no task gates on 64-bit.
> 

What we're doing here is really using task gates to emulate IST anyway.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-18 12:30 [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling Jan Beulich
2008-07-18 23:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-21  8:54   ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-21 11:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 10:13       ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-28 13:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 13:45           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-28 13:59           ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-28 14:02             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-28 16:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 22:00           ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-07-31 10:46             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-23 21:43 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-07-24  7:08   ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-24 13:24     ` H. Peter Anvin

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