Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:48:31 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] x86: Add classes to exception tables | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote: > > Linus, Peter, Ingo, Thomas: Can we head this direction? The code is cleaner > and more flexible. Or should we stick with Andy's clever way to squeeze a > couple of "class" bits into the fixup field of the exception table?
I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody.
So I think Borislav's patch has the advantage of being pretty straightforward and allowing arbitrary fixups, in case we end up having localized special cases..
Linus
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