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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use enum instead of literals for trap values
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:10:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A63B3.1040509@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331319124.25686.580.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On 03/09/2012 10:52 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I agree too, except where does "XCP" come from? Is it short for
> "exception"?

Yes, short for "exception".  I hate to admit it, but it comes from the
constants we used in the Transmeta microcode ;)

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09  7:42 [PATCH] x86: use enum instead of literals for trap values Kees Cook
2012-03-09  9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-09 16:30   ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 17:57     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-09 18:21       ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 18:28         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-09 18:52           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-09 20:10             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-09 22:13               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-09 22:23                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-10  8:34                 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-03-09 18:54           ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 19:08             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-09 19:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-09 19:58               ` Kees Cook
2012-03-09 20:13               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-09 20:21                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-10 10:15                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-10 13:54                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-03-10 14:27                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-03-11  7:52     ` Alexey Dobriyan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-22 22:44 [PATCH] x86: Use " John Kacur
2013-01-22 22:44 ` John Kacur
2013-02-01 17:18 ` Ben Hutchings

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