From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:08:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] Resched skip_rbs_switch to run 4 cycles faster on McKinley-type cores. Message-Id: <16889.40594.988943.699346@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <200501190500.j0J505jY002441@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200501190500.j0J505jY002441@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:26:18 +1100, Keith Owens said: Keith> Unwinding across firmware is not an issue here, we have two Keith> views of the MCA/INIT context. One view is "how to return to Keith> SAL?", that data is stored outside the stack. The other view Keith> is "what was the cpu doing when the event occurred?". It is Keith> the latter that I am working on. How is this different from the "unw_init_from_interruption" call that we're doing in mca.c:init_handler_platform()? --david