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To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] double fault enhancements
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:

> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
> 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. Change the pointer validity checks in the double
> fault handler to account for the fact that both GDT and TSS aren't in
> static kernel space anymore. 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.

Looks good to me. Feel free to include a Acked-by: ak@suse.de
in future versions.

-Andi