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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] x86: ia32_signal: introduce COPY_SEG_STRICT
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:52:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492203AE.7020206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4922027A.4060805@ct.jp.nec.com>

Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
> 
> Impact: cleanup
> 
> Introduce COPY_SEG_STRICT for ia32_restore_sigcontext().
> 

I don't like the name _STRICT() for this; if anything it seems to have 
quite the opposite meaning.  I would suggest COPY_SEG_USER() or even 
COPY_SEG_CPL3().

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15  3:24 [PATCH 1/5] x86: ia32_signal: cleanup macro COPY Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15  3:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: ia32_signal: introduce COPY_SEG_STRICT Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15 17:11   ` Américo Wang
2008-11-17 18:03     ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15  3:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: ia32_signal: cleanup macro RELOAD_SEG Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15 17:15   ` Américo Wang
2008-11-15  3:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: ia32_signal: remove using temporary variable Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15 17:22   ` Américo Wang
2008-11-17 18:09     ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15  3:28 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86: ia32_signal: change order of storing in setup_sigcontext() Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15 17:25   ` Américo Wang
2008-11-17 18:20     ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-15 17:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: ia32_signal: cleanup macro COPY Américo Wang
2008-11-17 17:57   ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-17 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 " Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-17 23:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] x86: ia32_signal: introduce COPY_SEG_STRICT Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-17 23:52     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-11-18  0:09       ` Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-18 15:56         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-17 23:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86: ia32_signal: cleanup macro RELOAD_SEG Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-17 23:48   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86: ia32_signal: remove using temporary variable Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-11-17 23:49   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86: ia32_signal: change order of storing in setup_sigcontext() Hiroshi Shimamoto

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