From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Why set ORIG_EAX(%esp) to -1 in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S:error_code?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:03:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F48F7D.4050908@goop.org> (raw)
There doesn't seem much point; nothing seems to use it on the
trap-handling paths. Is it a historical left-over?
J
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 19:03 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-29 21:55 ` Why set ORIG_EAX(%esp) to -1 in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S:error_code? Linus Torvalds
2006-08-29 22:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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