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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:55:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DEE6A.8050408@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12077165491881-git-send-email-yamahata@valinux.co.jp>

Dong, Eddie wrote:
> My understanding is that code such as IVT table are well tuned and you
> are really 
> difficult to pursuade people to replace those privilege resource access
> instruction
> to use vdso or something equalvalent such as mov GRx=CRy.  For those C
> code
> previlige resource access, like Isaku mentioned, we need to consider
> native too.

Hi Eddie,

I think binary patching of the ivt makes a lot of sense, I am certainly
not opposed to that. I was more thinking in terms of calls out of the
regular C code.

Cheers,
Jes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09  4:48 [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes some random info Isaku Yamahata
2008-04-22  9:16 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-04-22 10:02 ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-04-22 10:37 ` [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes Jes Sorensen
2008-04-22 10:41 ` [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes some random info Dong, Eddie
2008-04-22 11:02 ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-04-22 11:30 ` [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes Jes Sorensen
2008-04-22 13:15 ` [PATCH 04/15] ia64/pv_ops: introduce pv_info which describes some random info Dong, Eddie
2008-04-22 13:55 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2008-04-30 12:29 ` Isaku Yamahata

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