From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:24:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4881263B.7060700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4880A912.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Jan Beulich wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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?
-hpa
P.S. All your patches came through QP-damaged, which made them more
difficult to deal with manually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 23:25 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 [this message]
2008-07-21 8:54 ` Jan Beulich
2008-07-21 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
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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