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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 double fault enhancements
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:49:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224184940.GA5816@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FDADA0.76F0.0078.0@novell.com>

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >Can't we use CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT throughout?  It's very much clearer.
> 
> We could, when not considering broader use. I specifically introduced N_EXCEPTION_TSS
> so that it wouldn't be as hard as it currently is to have other exceptions got through task
> gates (nlkd's fault/trap/abort infrastructure does, for example).

So please keep this in your out of tree patch.  In mainline it's just
needlessly obsfucating the code.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22 10:59 [PATCH] i386 double fault enhancements Jan Beulich
2006-02-22 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-23 10:34   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 11:42   ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-24 18:49     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-03-03  9:30   ` Jan Beulich

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