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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] double fault enhancements
Date: 31 Jan 2006 13:35:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d5i8mv72.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DDF050.76F0.0078.0@novell.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>

"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:

> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
> Make the double fault handler use CPU-specific stacks. Add some
> abstraction to simplify future change of other exception handlers to go
> through task gates. Change the pointer validity checks in the double
> fault handler to account for the fact that both GDT and TSS aren't in
> static kernel space anymore. Add a new notification of the event
> through the die notifier chain, also providing some environmental
> adjustments so that various infrastructural things work independent of
> the fact that the fault and the callbacks are running on other then the
> normal kernel stack.

Looks good to me. Feel free to include a Acked-by: ak@suse.de
in future versions.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2006-01-31 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <43DDF050.76F0.0078.0@novell.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2006-01-31 12:35 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-30  9:54 [PATCH] double fault enhancements Jan Beulich
2006-01-30  9:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-30 10:12   ` Jan Beulich

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