On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 07:58:52PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Ira, > > On Fri, Nov 06 2020 at 15:29, ira weiny wrote: > > Subject prefix wants to 'entry:'. This changes generic code and the x86 > part is just required to fix the generic code change. Sorry, yes that was carried incorrectly from earlier versions. > > > Currently struct irqentry_state_t only contains a single bool value > > which makes passing it by value is reasonable. However, future patches > > propose to add information to this struct, for example the PKRS > > register/thread state. > > > > Adding information to irqentry_state_t makes passing by value less > > efficient. Therefore, change the entry/exit calls to pass irq_state by > > reference. > > The PKRS muck needs to add an u32 to that struct. So how is that a > problem? There are more fields to be added for the kmap/pmem support. So this will be needed eventually. Even though it is not strictly necessary in the next patch. > > The resulting struct still fits into 64bit which is by far more > efficiently passed by value than by reference. So which problem are you > solving here? I'm getting ahead of myself a bit. I will be adding more fields for the kmap/pmem tracking. Would you accept just a clean up for the variable names in this patch? I could then add the pass by reference when I add the new fields later. Or would an update to the commit message be ok to land this now? Ira > > Thanks > > tglx >
