From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: Remove deprecated disable_hlt and enable_hlt
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:31:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328163110.a8f0e9ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120328150300.GH1997@zod.bos.redhat.com>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:03:00 -0400
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Len Brown <lenb@intel.com>
Nope, it's lenb@kernel.org and/or len.brown@intel.com.
I've been using both addresses for Len lately - I think some people's
@kernel.org addresses are now dead. I don't know about Len, but mine
has died and I haven't set about working out how to resurrect it.
> The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the 32-bit
> floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the HLT instruction
> inside default_idle() with cpu_relax().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 15:03 [PATCH v3] x86: Remove deprecated disable_hlt and enable_hlt Josh Boyer
2012-03-28 23:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-03-28 23:41 ` Josh Boyer
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