From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752019Ab2FKAZv (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:25:51 -0400 Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([78.24.191.182]:60622 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110Ab2FKAZu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:25:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:25:47 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Steven Rostedt cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code In-Reply-To: <1339177929.13377.66.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Message-ID: References: <20120608135200.371649691@goodmis.org> <20120608135603.699156773@goodmis.org> <4FD223E1.1090707@zytor.com> <1339173716.13377.50.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4FD23626.4020802@zytor.com> <1339176975.13377.56.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4FD238CD.8000601@zytor.com> <1339177929.13377.66.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: > "Idiot! Why the f*ck are you running i386 on your nice shiny new x86_64 > machine, with Umpteen Gigs of RAM. Boot a x86_64 kernel for Christ sake > and get your full potential. Your i386 userspace will still work just > fine on it. You're like one of those 75 year old retirees that can > finally buy a Porsche just to drive it 10 miles per hour below the speed > limit with a line of cars behind them!" :) Yeah, if only native x86_64 could run vm86 so as to ask the VGA BIOS to unbotch the graphics card that shot itself into the foot for whatever reason, sigh... Maciej