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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 20:30:42 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct
	pt_regs"
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On 08/01, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> This patch changes code to always allocate a complete "struct pt_regs".
> The saving of registers is still done lazily.

I obviously like this change very much. Unfortunately I can only ack the
intent ;)

I really hope that maintainers will take a closer look.

Oleg.