From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: rename is_at_popf(), add iret to tests and fix insn length
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:54:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608021454.33685.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608020840_MC3-1-C6D8-A1A6@compuserve.com>
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:37, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> is_at_popf() needs to test for the iret instruction as well as
> popf. So add that test and rename it to is_setting_trap_flag().
Do you have a single real example where anybody is actually using IRET
in user space?
-Andi
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2006-08-02 12:37 [patch] x86: rename is_at_popf(), add iret to tests and fix insn length Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-02 12:54 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2006-08-02 13:35 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-02 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
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2006-08-02 21:29 ` Bodo Eggert
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