From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86: unify sys_iopl
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:22:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABD50A5.5000309@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73c1f2160909251556g40f3c5b1o1c29b7f012912873@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/25/09 15:56, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The correct fix is to move set_iopl_mask into do_iopl. sys_iopl
> should only be a wrapper around do_iopl to manage the different
> calling convention used by 32-bit and 64-bit.
>
The patch eliminates that distinction, so I guess do_iopl should really
be folded into sys_iopl (though the compiler effectively does that
anyway by inlining it).
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-25 22:05 [GIT PULL] x86: unify sys_iopl Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-25 22:56 ` Brian Gerst
2009-09-25 23:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-09-25 23:54 ` Brian Gerst
2009-09-26 0:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-13 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-13 16:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-13 16:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-13 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-13 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-13 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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