Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754385AbaGQHrQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:47:16 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65276 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751401AbaGQHrP (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:47:15 -0400 Message-ID: <53C77F79.2010508@nod.at> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:47:05 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Luck CC: "Yu, Fenghua" , Russell King - ARM Linux , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ia64: Remove Linux/x86 domain support References: <1405263538-27589-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <1405263538-27589-3-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 17.07.2014 01:20, schrieb Tony Luck: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Did you read the comment? Sure, please see my comment below. >> -/* >> - * Even when CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is not enabled it is >> - * useful to have the Linux/x86 domain registered to >> - * avoid an attempted module load when emulators call >> - * personality(PER_LINUX32). This saves several milliseconds >> - * on each such call. >> - */ > > I don't know if there are still people using ia32el to run x86 binaries > on ia64 ... but if there are, they may be sad at the extra delays. As written in 0/, the plan is to get rid of exec domains at all. Therefore personality(PER_LINUX32) would no longer try to request a module. Thanks, //richard -- 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/