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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs"
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:13:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E13AD9.5080908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407250354-29525-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com>

On 08/05/2014 07:52 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Version 3 of the patchset.
> 
> Please consider applying at least two first patches, they are definitely safe,
> and the second one fixes a latent bug.
> 

Please do provide latency measurements.  I highly suspect that they will
turn out that that this has no significant impact on latency, but we
need to know for sure.

This is too late for 3.17 anyway, so we have some time.

	-hpa



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-05 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-05 14:52 [PATCH v3 0/8] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs" Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86: entry_64.S: delete unused code Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86: ia32entry.S: fix wrong symbolic constant usage: R11->ARGOFFSET Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86: open-code register save/restore in trace_hardirqs thunks Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86: entry_64.S: fold SAVE_ARGS_IRQ macro into its sole user Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs" Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86: mass removal of ARGOFFSET Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86: rename some macros and labels, no code changes Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 14:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86: add comments about various syscall instructions, " Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 19:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-08-08 16:18     ` Denys Vlasenko
2014-08-05 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-08-06 15:07   ` [PATCH v3 0/8] x86: entry_64.S: always allocate complete "struct pt_regs" Denys Vlasenko

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