From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
glommer@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
ehabkost@redhat.com, jeremy@goop.org, avi@qumranet.com,
anthony@codemonkey.ws, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ak@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, zach@vmware.com, roland@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] replace x86_read/write_per_cpu with a common function.
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:16:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <476ADBB6.6040003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11981813802836-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> x86_read_per_cpu() and its writeish sister are not present in x86_64. So in
> this patch, we replace them with __get_cpu_var(), which is present in both
Eventually we'd like to use something closer to the i386 code for
x86_64, obviously...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 20:03 [PATCH 0/15] adjust pvops to accomodate its x86_64 variant Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:03 ` [PATCH 01/15] change paravirt_32.c name Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:03 ` [PATCH 02/15] adjust PVOP_CALL/VCALL macros for x86_64 Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:03 ` [PATCH 03/15] cleanup write_tsc Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:03 ` [PATCH 04/15] provide paravirtualized hook for rdtscp Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 05/15] change assembly definition of paravirt_patch_site Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 06/15] adjust assembly macros to x86_64 as well Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 07/15] change irq functions to accomodate x86_64 Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 08/15] add macro for privileged x86_64 operation Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 09/15] adds paravirt hook for swapgs Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 10/15] replace privileged instructions with paravirt macros Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 11/15] cleanup CLI_STRING, STI_STRING and friends Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 12/15] add CLBR_ defines for x86_64 Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 13/15] move patching code to arch-specific file Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 14/15] x86_64 patching functions Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 20:04 ` [PATCH 15/15] replace x86_read/write_per_cpu with a common function Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-12-20 20:31 ` [PATCH 13/15] move patching code to arch-specific file Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 20:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-20 21:22 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-20 21:26 ` Ingo Molnar
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