From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932424AbWBXStv (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:49:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932426AbWBXStu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:49:50 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41375 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932424AbWBXStu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:49:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:49:41 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Beulich Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 double fault enhancements Message-ID: <20060224184940.GA5816@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Beulich , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200602221159.08969.jbeulich@novell.com> <20060222143212.0eea2ab0.akpm@osdl.org> <43FDADA0.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43FDADA0.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >Can't we use CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT throughout? It's very much clearer. > > We could, when not considering broader use. I specifically introduced N_EXCEPTION_TSS > so that it wouldn't be as hard as it currently is to have other exceptions got through task > gates (nlkd's fault/trap/abort infrastructure does, for example). So please keep this in your out of tree patch. In mainline it's just needlessly obsfucating the code.