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From: richard@nod.at (Richard Weinberger)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 domain support
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:47:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C77F79.2010508@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8MBbKA5UppTjLP6JYAeLMAyeUPBfF73j91xDCfoF_Vewy5=A@mail.gmail.com>

Am 17.07.2014 01:20, schrieb Tony Luck:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> 
> Did you read the comment?

Sure, please see my comment below.

>> -/*
>> - * Even when CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is not enabled it is
>> - * useful to have the Linux/x86 domain registered to
>> - * avoid an attempted module load when emulators call
>> - * personality(PER_LINUX32). This saves several milliseconds
>> - * on each such call.
>> - */
> 
> I don't know if there are still people using ia32el to run x86 binaries
> on ia64 ... but if there are, they may be sad at the extra delays.

As written in 0/, the plan is to get rid of exec domains at all.
Therefore personality(PER_LINUX32) would no longer try to request a module.

Thanks,
//richard

      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-17  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-13 14:58 [RFC] Remove remaining users of exec domains Richard Weinberger
2014-07-13 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm: Remove RISC OS personality Richard Weinberger
2014-07-21 20:53   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-13 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 domain support Richard Weinberger
2014-07-16 23:20   ` Tony Luck
2014-07-17  7:47     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]

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