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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:26:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, so I do know what #BP is, but what the heck disambiguates the two 
> > meanings of _bp and why do we have the above jungle of an inconsistent 
> > namespace? :-)
> > 
> > Picking _int3 would neatly solve all of that.
> 
> Sure; the most obvious case where BP would make sense, the trap entry
> point, we already use int3 so yeah, make it int3 throughout.

Okay - I just sent out a series to do this. Found a few other things to 
fix/improve along the way:

	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250327205355.378659-1-mingo@kernel.org

Thanks,

	Ingo