From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v2.6.33
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:35:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1FFBE8.2000302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73c1f2160912091125s166219ddl56e7cbede800ac3@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/09/2009 11:25 AM, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> I had started working on a patchset like this when this issue came up
> the first time. I'll get it up to date and send it out. It would be
> nice if this could be done for all syscalls, so that
> asmlinkage_protect() isn't needed.
>
asmlinkage_protect() is evil in the extreme and really should be killed.
In fact, I started working on a patchset to eliminate asmlinkage completely.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 21:09 [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v2.6.33 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-08 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-09 7:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-09 18:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-09 18:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-09 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-09 18:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-09 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-09 19:25 ` Brian Gerst
2009-12-09 19:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-12-09 19:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-09 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-09 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-09 18:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-09 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
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2009-12-09 18:29 H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-09 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
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