From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:35:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F90A141.5060601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8MBbLdq4YYFJXO5HT-=MExO_s-eFkxFigHD0H=Zj5BvHtSVA@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/19/2012 04:26 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:10 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> be better. That being said, some distros are complaining about the
>> amount of time it takes to load modules on boot...
>
> That could be fixed in the installer for the distribution by rebuilding a kernel
> with the target set of modules for the system built in.
>
... assuming you have a well-defined "the system". It isn't always you
will boot on the same hardware every time.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 0:16 [PATCH 0/5] RFC: x86: Early exception table support H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 0:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86, nop: Make the ASM_NOP* macros work from assembly H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 9:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-20 0:24 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 0:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: Add symbolic constant for exceptions with error code H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 9:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-20 0:25 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 0:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86, paravirt: Replace GET_CR2_INTO_RCX with GET_CR2_INTO_RAX H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 0:26 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 0:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86-64: Handle exception table entries during early boot H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 13:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 16:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 17:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-20 0:29 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, doc: Revert "x86: Document rdmsr_safe restrictions" tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 0:28 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86-64: Handle exception table entries during early boot tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 0:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86-32: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 0:28 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 9:22 ` [PATCH 0/5] RFC: x86: Early exception table support Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 9:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, extable: Cleanup fixup_exception Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, extable: Carve out the main extable searching routine Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 9:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 17:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-19 17:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-19 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 20:17 ` David Daney
2012-04-19 20:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 20:40 ` David Daney
2012-04-19 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-19 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 22:47 ` Tony Luck
2012-04-19 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-19 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-19 23:26 ` Tony Luck
2012-04-19 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-20 8:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-19 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 8:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 0:27 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Add early_fixup_exception() tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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