Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86-64 put current in r10

Nick Piggin
2005-11-30T08:20:13Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 08:39 +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
>
>>Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>>
>>>The following emails contain the patches to convert x86-64 to store current
>>>in r10 (also at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/patches/v2.6.15-rc3/).
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>No benchmarks that I am aware of show regressions with this change.
>>
>>Ben,
>>Your patch breaks all out-of-tree amd64 assembler code used in kernel.
>
>
> so what?
>

Sounds like a trick question - I don't think the kernel does use any
out-of-tree amd64 assember code, does it? ;)

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