Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753895Ab0H2SeO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:34:14 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:58745 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753645Ab0H2SeN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:34:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VhPsYYD/3lswUh22lkogWNNbBYhTtwoz6qahyDWqO3WEKh0M3kez40qFePexecyAWj vDseqvyRBHWH2HB8HX+yq3mo7UdfrLkOodHWpIrxGKQnd7jC+GxF8ZP8ChAqTm7omjO9 Ggxa9D0aediAQTFqAnrmFJ1sdfVYh/yxhZBCo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1283011478-27237-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> References: <1283011478-27237-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> <1283011478-27237-4-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:32:59 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: A7dpKtWh0EpQ_BUiuw7poN7JFec Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86: Merge tolerant_fwait() From: Pekka Enberg To: Brian Gerst Cc: hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 14 On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Brian Gerst wrote: > Now that 32-bit can handle exceptions from the kernel, switch to using > the 64-bit version of tolerant_fwait() without fnclex. ?In the unlikely > event an exception is triggered, it is simply ignored. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst Why is 32-bit able to handle exceptions? Is that part of this series or is it some existing commit in tip or linus? -- 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/