Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:19:02 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] minor cleanups to EFLAGS initialisation in ret_from_fork |
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:58:03AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > The following series removes the use of a global kernel_eflags variable > from the x86_64 ret_from_fork path and (very slightly) merges the 32 and > 64 bit version of that code path. > > kernel_eflags could be made a __read_mostly but actually there is no > reason to prefer the value at cpu_init() time to a compile time constant > value for the initial eflags after a fork. > > Ian. >
Thanks, Ian! I think noone against this simplification, Peter, Andi?
Cyrill
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