From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753651AbaJTVmL (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:42:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42736 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753211AbaJTVmK (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:42:10 -0400 Message-ID: <54458199.1000607@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:41:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up References: In-Reply-To: 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 09/23/2014 10:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Patch 8 removes the vvar that selects the getcpu mode. That vvar > has been unnecessary for a couple of years, ever since alternative > patching has worked in the vdso. > Is there any fundamental reason to not always use LSL at this point? -hpa