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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252457195.3423.124.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA6F777.2080103@zytor.com>

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On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 17:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
[...]
> I'm wondering if it wouldn't be cleaner to fold the jump into
> sync_core() and moving the sync_core() up before local_irq_restore().

Exactly as I suggested below the dashes. :-)

The only reason I didn't do that initially was that I don't know whether
or not there's a good reason for the current placement of sync_core()
after local_irq_restore().

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08 23:23 [PATCH] x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486 Ben Hutchings
2009-09-09  0:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-09  0:46   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-09-09  1:00     ` H. Peter Anvin

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