Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:52:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:43:38PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 10/2/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:21:09 +0100 > >David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used > >instead > >> of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in > >the > >> Linux kernel. > >> > > Nice! I was wanting to do that for a long time...
Yeah! Finally get rid of that from every single fricken USB urb callback. I have been wanting that gone for a very long time.
> >I think the change is good. But I don't want to maintain this whopper > >out-of-tree for two months! If we want to do this, we should just smash it > >in and grit our teeth. > > Yes, lets drop it in while we still not reached rc1.
I don't care when it goes it, I have no objection to it at all.
David, thanks a lot for doing this.
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