From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721110510.GC10782@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48846B02.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> > This patch doesn't apply for me to the extent that I'm hesitant to
> > fix it up manually. Could you please refresh it against current
> > -linus?
>
> 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. 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.
this still doesnt apply to latest -git. (or tip/master)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 12:30 Jan Beulich
2008-07-18 23:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-21 8:54 ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-21 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-22 10:13 ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-28 13:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 13:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-28 13:59 ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-28 14:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-28 16:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 22:00 ` Chuck Ebbert
2008-07-31 10:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-23 21:43 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-07-24 7:08 ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-24 13:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
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