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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] [GIT PULL][v3.2] x86: Consolidate 32 and 64 bit
 thread_info
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 19:04 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 06:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Thomas, Ingo, and Peter(s),
> > 
> > On IRC, Peter Zijlstra mentioned to me the difference between
> > 32bit and 64bit x86 on how thread_info is handled with interrupts.
> > I mentioned that they should be more the same, and Peter agreed.
> > 
> > I decided to do so, and ended up with the following patches.
> > I marked this for v3.2 as it should be tested a bit before going into
> > mainline. I've ran several configs on it, but more testing should be done.
> > 
> > Some of the patches are clean ups, but the main ones are patch 3 and 4
> > that do the work to convert 32bit of thread_info to be more like
> > the 64bit.
> > 
> 
> Hi Steven,
> 
> I'd like to wait until the merge window is over with pulling in 3.2
> material ... nothing personal or technical, just to simplify management.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

Ping?

-- Steve