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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:41:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050816204149.GN7991@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430233FF.7090106@vmware.com>

* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> Several reviewers noticed that initialization and destruction of the
> mm->context is unnecessary, since the entire MM struct is zeroed on
> allocation anyways.

well, on fork it should be just shallow copied rather than zeroed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-16 17:03 [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct Chuck Ebbert
2005-08-16 18:44 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-16 19:05   ` [PATCH] i386 / desc_empty macro is incorrect Chris Wright
2005-08-16 19:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-16 20:41   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-08-16 20:56     ` [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct Zachary Amsden
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-15 22:59 zach
2005-08-16  5:23 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-16  5:46   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-16  6:17     ` Chris Wright

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