Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 10/20/2014 02:57 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>> >>> Should I send a replacement for patch 8 or should I let you merge 1-7 >>> and fold this into the followup series? >>> >> >> Pl

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/20/2014 02:57 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> Should I send a replacement for patch 8 or should I let you merge 1-7 >> and fold this into the followup series? >> > > Please send a replacement. Sending in a sec. Also, this is really

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 10/20/2014 02:57 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Should I send a replacement for patch 8 or should I let you merge 1-7 > and fold this into the followup series? > Please send a replacement. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/23/2014 10:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> Patch 8 removes the vvar that selects the getcpu mode. That vvar >> has been unnecessary for a couple of years, ever since alternative >> patching has worked in the vdso. >> > > Is there

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/23/2014 10:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Patch 8 removes the vvar that selects the getcpu mode. That vvar > has been unnecessary for a couple of years, ever since alternative > patching has worked in the vdso. > Is there any fundamental reason to not always use LSL at this point?

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-10-20 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi Ingo and Thomas, Now that the merge window is closed, can you take a look at these? There are a few more that follow (tidying up vsyscall emulation and adding a config flag for the tiny folks), too, but I'd rather not keep resending th

[PATCH 0/8] x86: Disentangle the vdso and clean it up

2014-09-23 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Hi Ingo and Thomas, This should all be straightforward. It's primarily a cleanup, but it fixes what is arguably a bug in the PER_CPU mechanism. The first two patches just rearrange code to disentangle the vdso from the vsyscall emulation code. The next three patches are tiny. Patch 3 rewrites