Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753158Ab0AQAvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:51:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751302Ab0AQAvG (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:51:06 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40109 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743Ab0AQAvF (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:51:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4B525ED7.3000005@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:50:31 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Campbell CC: Cyrill Gorcunov , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes References: <20100116170338.GA17175@elte.hu> <20100116205342.GA5725@lenovo> <1263676617.14137.679.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1263676617.14137.679.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 Content-Length: 636 Lines: 20 On 01/16/2010 01:16 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Although I think Linus' basic point is still valid -- why isn't a valid > SS needed for 32 bit? The selectors have real meaning there even for > native, don't they? > No, they aren't used for native for either 32 or 64 bits. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/