Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

Russell King
2002-07-22T14:24:45Z

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:05:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there are some more IRQ subsystem cleanups for which i have patches: such
> as the removal of the pt_regs parameter from the irq handler function,
> it's unused in 99% of the drivers - and the remaining 1% can get at it via
> other means.

If "other means" means knowing that its located in a certain place on the
stack, that's actually bogus. Any user space task started via exec from
a kernel thread has extra junk on the kernel stack. Been there already.
;(

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