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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:03:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615080327.GA15894@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWpj_=O_gYG9+8Cv7stqOX9pniGK0xkE3eOhWNPSuzwMg@mail.gmail.com>


* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Move the low-level context switch code to an out-of-line asm stub instead of 
> > using complex inline asm.  This allows constructing a new stack frame for the 
> > child process to make it seamlessly flow to ret_from_fork without an extra 
> > test and branch in __switch_to().  It also improves code generation for 
> > __schedule() by using the C calling convention instead of clobbering all 
> > registers.
> 
> Just a heads up: I'm writing some code that conflicts with this patch. The 
> conflict will be easy to resolve, and, if this patch beats mine to -tip, I'll 
> rebase.

So I was expecting another iteration of this switch_to() series, but had no 
fundamental objections to the concept.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-21 16:04 [PATCH 0/4] x86: Rewrite switch_to() Brian Gerst
2016-05-21 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: Save return value from kernel_thread Brian Gerst
2016-05-22  1:44   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-22  2:19     ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-21 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86-32, kgdb: Don't use thread.ip in sleeping_thread_to_gdb_regs() Brian Gerst
2016-05-23 17:05   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-21 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code Brian Gerst
2016-05-22 17:59   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-22 19:31     ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-22 21:07       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-23  2:34     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23  4:47       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-23 11:40         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 11:49           ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-23 12:05             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 11:14       ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-23 11:47         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 11:49           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 16:46             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 17:03               ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-23 18:44                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-12 14:16                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-06-15  1:31   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-15  8:03     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-06-15 11:52       ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-21 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: Pass kernel thread parameters in fork_frame Brian Gerst
2016-05-22 18:01   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-22 19:21     ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-23 15:23   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-05-23 15:36     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-05-23 21:04       ` Brian Gerst

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