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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up x86 interrupt entry code
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It seems to be always loaded by the common interrupt code (and %ebx is a 
> call-saved register, so calling the interrupt handlers and returning 
> doesn't clobber it).

True enough.  I guess I should of done this from the beginning ...

> But testing it may be a good idea ;^p

Of course I will, but it is hard (and subject to Heisenberg principals)
to test that we preempt whenever necessary.  Only with the patch I sent
you earlier am I seeing no missed preemptions ... now to work on the
egregiously long-held locks.

	Robert Love

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