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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:47:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 domain support
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To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
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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