Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965445AbWJBVzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:55:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965441AbWJBVzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:55:45 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37345 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965445AbWJBVzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:55:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:47:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , David Howells , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH , David Brownell , Alan Stern Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Message-ID: <20061002214732.GA11451@elte.hu> References: <20061002162049.17763.39576.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002140121.f588b463.akpm@osdl.org> <200610022319.59029.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 22 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > How would you test something like this? It would touch all > > architectures and nearly all drivers too. > > "If it compiles, it works". > > Pretty close. Note that the IRQ threading code in the -rt tree already passes NULL as the pt_regs argument to /all/ drivers [except the timer interrupt]. So there's more than just the compilation evidence ;-) Ingo - 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/