From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753235Ab1HFCFc (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:05:32 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36974 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017Ab1HFCFb (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:05:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4E3CA12D.1030408@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:04:29 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Brian Gerst Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] [GIT PULL][v3.2] x86: Consolidate 32 and 64 bit thread_info References: <20110806011102.721109343@goodmis.org> In-Reply-To: <20110806011102.721109343@goodmis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/05/2011 06:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Thomas, Ingo, and Peter(s), > > On IRC, Peter Zijlstra mentioned to me the difference between > 32bit and 64bit x86 on how thread_info is handled with interrupts. > I mentioned that they should be more the same, and Peter agreed. > > I decided to do so, and ended up with the following patches. > I marked this for v3.2 as it should be tested a bit before going into > mainline. I've ran several configs on it, but more testing should be done. > > Some of the patches are clean ups, but the main ones are patch 3 and 4 > that do the work to convert 32bit of thread_info to be more like > the 64bit. > Hi Steven, I'd like to wait until the merge window is over with pulling in 3.2 material ... nothing personal or technical, just to simplify management. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.