From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Scott Garfinkle <scotteglist@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/15] misc: Make x86 doublefault handling optional
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:45:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051116194557.GQ5735@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1079b100511161121g1997cfb4jc8e8aec5072c1d92@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:21:48PM -0600, Scott Garfinkle wrote:
> I tend to agree with the spirit of Andi's comment -- disabling this
> will (I think) make the rare time when it happens into something
> impossible to debug without a new kernel and reproducing the problem.
> Not being familiar with EMBEDDED, I am curious whether the savings is
> critical.
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
help
This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
So yes, Matt's patch does make sense.
cu
Adrian
BTW: Don't strip the Cc when replying to linux-kernel.
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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-11 8:35 [PATCH 0/15] misc: Miscellaneous bits from -tiny Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 1/15] misc: Add bloat-o-meter to scripts Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 2/15] misc: Uninline some namei.c functions Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 3/15] misc: Uninline some open.c functions Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 4/15] misc: Uninline some inode.c functions Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 5/15] misc: Uninline some fslocks.c functions Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 6/15] misc: Trim non-IPX builds Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 7/15] misc: Make x86 doublefault handling optional Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 8/15] misc: Make vm86 support optional Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 9/15] misc: Make sysenter " Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 10/15] misc: Make *[ug]id16 " Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 11/15] misc: Allow dropping panic text strings from kernel image Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 12/15] misc: Configurable panic support Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 13/15] misc: Configure ELF core dump support Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 14/15] misc: Configurable number of supported IDE interfaces Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 8:35 ` [PATCH 15/15] misc: Configurable support for PCI serial ports Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 11:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-01-07 16:50 ` Russell King
2006-01-08 2:26 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 10:14 ` [PATCH 14/15] misc: Configurable number of supported IDE interfaces Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-11 17:18 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 17:34 ` Roman Zippel
2005-11-11 17:37 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 17:47 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-11 17:49 ` Roman Zippel
2005-11-11 11:03 ` [PATCH 11/15] misc: Allow dropping panic text strings from kernel image Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-11-11 17:21 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-12 6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 10:22 ` [PATCH 10/15] misc: Make *[ug]id16 support optional Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-11-16 13:21 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 18:01 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-20 15:46 ` Zdenek Pavlas
2005-12-20 16:50 ` Rob Landley
2005-12-21 17:30 ` Zdenek Pavlas
2005-11-12 5:57 ` [PATCH 9/15] misc: Make sysenter " Andrew Morton
2005-11-12 5:55 ` [PATCH 8/15] misc: Make vm86 " Andrew Morton
2005-11-13 3:30 ` [PATCH 7/15] misc: Make x86 doublefault handling optional Andi Kleen
2005-11-16 13:13 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 18:21 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-16 19:21 ` Scott Garfinkle
2005-11-16 19:45 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-12-12 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-12 16:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-12 15:32 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-13 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-14 1:57 ` [PATCH 6/15] misc: Trim non-IPX builds Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 5:22 ` [2.6 patch] move some code to net/ipx/af_ipx.c Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 17:27 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-18 20:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-12-05 21:35 ` Adrian Bunk
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2005-11-14 0:33 ` [PATCH 7/15] misc: Make x86 doublefault handling optional Bodo Eggert
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