Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:14:45 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] i387: support lazy restore of FPU state |
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On 02/21/2012 10:26 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, but I'll send you this with a proper commit log. I'll also send > you another patch that splits "<asm/i387.h>" into two. > > Right now <asm/i387.h> has two different users: the first of which > "normal kernel use" kind of things (ie kernel_fpu_begin() and friends) > that really don't care about the internals very deeply. But the second > class of user is the actual i387 internal implementation thing that is > used by i387.c and xsave.c etc to actually implement the exposed > interfaces. > > As a result, <asm/i387.h> is this mixture of exposed interfaces and > "deep internal knowledge". And as a result, that deep internal > knowledge kind of accidentally gets exposed to code that really > shouldn't be exposed to it. > > I have a patch that fixes that. I'll send you a series of two patches > with sign-offs and commentary asap. >
Thanks!
-hpa
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