Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:45:57 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 29/34] x86: separate out LDT init from context init |
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Dave Hansen wrote: > The arch-specific mm_context_t is a great place to put > protection-key allocation state. > > But, we need to initialize the allocation state because pkey 0 is > always "allocated". All of the runtime initialization of > mm_context_t is done in *_ldt() manipulation functions. This > renames the existing LDT functions like this: > > init_new_context() -> init_new_context_ldt() > destroy_context() -> destroy_context_ldt() > > and makes init_new_context() and destroy_context() available for > generic use.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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