From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>,
hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64, doc: update to account for file shuffling
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 23:51:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141209225157.GM25677@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141209172709.GC4147@pd.tnic>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:54:01PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> >
> > While at it, also refer to the 32 bit entry file.
> >
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: x86@kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
> > index bc7226e..4796392 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt
> > @@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20110529191055.GC9835%40elte.hu>
> > The x86 architecture has quite a few different ways to jump into
> > kernel code. Most of these entry points are registered in
> > arch/x86/kernel/traps.c and implemented in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> > -and arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S.
> > +for 64-bit, arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S for 32-bit and finally
> > +arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S which allows to run legacy 32-bit programs
> > +under a 64-bit kernel.
>
> Make that "... which implements the 32-bit compatibility syscall entry
> points and thus provides for 32-bit processes to execute syscalls when
> running on 64-bit kernels."
>
> Or something like that. In any case, a bit more precise sounds better to
> me.
OK thanks for the review.
Luis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-09 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-08 22:54 [PATCH] x86-64, doc: update to account for file shuffling Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-12-09 17:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-12-09 22:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
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