On 01/18/2012 01:01 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> If we're going to use bits in an existing register field I would be >> happier if we used bits [31:16] of CS, which are unlikely to ever be >> used for anything. > > See my note about that: I would have preferred CS or ORIG_AX myself, > but that breaks existing binaries. So that isn't really an option. > Fair enough. Sigh. I still think an actual pseudo-register would be better. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
