Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757014Ab1FFRvP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:51:15 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:48717 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754758Ab1FFRvI (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:51:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:50:57 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: x86@kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, Mikael Pettersson , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86-64: Clean up vsyscall emulation and remove fixed-address ret Message-ID: <20110606175057.GB6412@elte.hu> References: <20110606174129.GA6412@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 989 Lines: 28 * Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> ?arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h ? | ? 10 ++++- > >> ?arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c ? ? | ? 78 +++++++++++-------------------------- > >> ?arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S | ? 17 +-------- > >> ?3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) > > > > Ok, this makes the whole series a lot more palatable! > > > > Can i propagate the rename suggested by hpa into patch #3: > > > > ?CONFIG_COMPAT_VSYSCALL => CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL > > Certainly! CONFIG_LEGACY_VTIME might be even better, but I'm fine > with any renaming you'd like to do. Good point, i changed it to CONFIG_LEGACY_VTIME - this correctly implies that it's only about vtime(), not about any other vsyscall. Thanks, 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/