From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761339AbYD0Arn (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:47:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754620AbYD0Arg (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:47:36 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53330 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753975AbYD0Arf (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:47:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080426.174735.117959877.davem@davemloft.net> To: hpa@zytor.com Cc: dean@arctic.org, ejbosman@cs.vu.nl, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, andrea@cpushare.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4813CABD.7040603@zytor.com> References: <4813BED5.7070000@zytor.com> <4813CABD.7040603@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:37:17 -0700 > dean gaudet wrote: > >>> > >> PR_SET/PR_GET are the common prefixes, though. > > > > that's not what's at issue... "PR_SET_TSC" reads "set the TSC" ... it > > doesn't read "set the ability to use the rdtsc instruction". > > PR_SET_RDTSC_ENABLE would seem to be more accurate... or even > > PR_SET_CR4_TSD which is what it really does :) > > > > The whole point I'm making is that any such name would inherently read > x86-specific. Agreed.