From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: 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>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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 12:13:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A644C.3080306@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120309190842.GC13745@aftab>
On 03/09/2012 11:08 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> So is this reserved or are we using it for Spurious IRQs? If we use it,
> then 'RES' is a bad name. Maybe we define our own like
>
> X86_VEC_SP
>
> and then do
>
> X86_VEC_IR for IRET
>
> in the manner we assumed for the rest?
>
Actually I prefer if we didn't use two-letter versions for the ones that
aren't defined in the documentation; especially IRET which is a pure
Linux invention.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 20:13 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
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 [this message]
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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