From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/21] i386 Deprecate descriptor asm
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:18:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511101518.25744.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511080431.jA84Vdg5009909@zach-dev.vmware.com>
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 05:31, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Ancient inline assembler that manipulates descriptor tables is unreadable
> and has no type checking. Doing this in C actually generates better code,
> saves code space, and improves readability.
Great idea. This was one of the first things I changed in the x86-64 port.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 4:31 [PATCH 12/21] i386 Deprecate descriptor asm Zachary Amsden
2005-11-08 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-10 14:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-11-10 16:14 ` Vincent Hanquez
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