From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758247Ab3K0Xoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:44:37 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:57375 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754521Ab3K0Xof (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:44:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:44:27 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 Message-ID: <20131127234427.GD32119@two.firstfloor.org> References: <1385426236-14960-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <5294F10C.8060901@amacapital.net> <52964EC7.9000504@zytor.com> <52966C0A.7070201@zytor.com> <529677D7.9080203@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One reason why I like having a syscall is that if there is some CPU which needs additional workarounds here it could be all done in a central place (I don't know of any that does right now but traditionally it has been a bug intensive area) > Hmm? It doesn't sound too bad. And I really don't see the point of > some timeout handling or anything like that. Sounds good to me. I'll work on it. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.