RE: [PATCH v12 24/37] x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> > FRED and IDT can share most of the definitions and declarations so
> > that in the majority of cases the actual handler implementation is the
> > same.
> >
> > The differences are the exceptions where FRED stores exception related
> > information on the stack and the sysvec implementations as FRED can
> > handle irqentry/exit() in the dispatcher instead of having it in each
> > handler.
> >
> > Also add stub defines for vectors which are not used due to Kconfig
> > decisions to spare the ifdeffery in the actual FRED dispatch code.
> >
> > Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This makes me wonder too who the author is. The commit message text sounds
> like tglx. :)

You have a very good sense 😊

This is mostly from his review comments and suggestions on my original
changes to IDTENTRY.  So probably I should put a "Suggested-by" instead
of "Signed-off-by" as HPA pointed out!

Thanks!
    Xin




[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux