Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752109Ab3FXOjN (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:39:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:57045 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751908Ab3FXOjM (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:39:12 -0400 Message-ID: <51C85A0D.3070400@codeaurora.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:39:09 -0400 From: Christopher Covington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Deacon CC: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Nicolas Pitre , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Add support for LPAE style CONTEXTIDR References: <1372080405-13365-1-git-send-email-cov@codeaurora.org> <20130624140424.GA24861@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130624140424.GA24861@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 23 Hi Will, On 06/24/2013 10:04 AM, Will Deacon wrote: [...] > What's the advantage of this approach, other than you get an extra byte's > worth of PID? In my view, the real advantage is that the the PID is located where people reading ARM Architecture Reference Manual are told they can find it. Regards, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/