From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:45:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EBF4A2.4080202@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007233709.GW20740@one.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> -Andi (who never got this strange meme which is floating around
> in the kernel community for some time that cut'n'pasting interfaces
> into user programs is a sane thing. To me it seems insane.)
>
Not "cutting and pasting". Librarizing.
FWIW, I started a git tree for these kinds of stuff at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/cpu/libx86/libx86.git
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 11:43 Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 11:43 ` [PATCH] [2/3] Use the fancy DECLARE_EAX_EDX macros for rdtscp too Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 11:43 ` [PATCH] [3/3] Remove unused EAX_EDX_ARGS Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 21:32 ` [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 23:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:37 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-10-07 23:42 ` [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space II Andi Kleen
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