Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965124AbWJBXxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:53:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965123AbWJBXxI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:53:08 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:63703 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965092AbWJBXxH (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:53:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:52:46 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Andrew Morton , David Howells , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell , Alan Stern Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers Message-ID: <20061002235246.GA27274@kroah.com> References: <20061002162049.17763.39576.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002162053.17763.26032.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061002132116.2663d7a3.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1180 Lines: 33 On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:43:38PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 10/2/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:21:09 +0100 > >David Howells 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. greg k-h - 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/