linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86: unify sys

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:30:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86: unify sys_iopl


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> The x86-64 implementation of iopl was buggy because it never ended up 
> calling set_iopl_mask().  This had no effect on native sys_iopl 
> (because set_iopl_mask is normally no-op on 64-bit), but it ended up 
> never calling the pvop, which caused iopl to have no effect on 64-bit 
> Xen guests.
> 
> The two functions are needlessly different anyway.  This patch just 
> unifies them into a single function which is mostly derived from the 
> 32-bit version.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	J
> 
> The following changes since commit c44c9ec0f38b939b3200436e3aa95c1aa83c41c7:
>   Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
>         x86: split NX setup into separate file to limit unstack-protected code
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git bugfix
> 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
>       x86: unify sys_iopl
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h |    8 +++-----
>  arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c        |   11 ++---------
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Jeremy!

It's in tip:x86/paravirt right now. I'm uneasy about pushing this into 
.32 - we had this status quo forever. Peter, Thomas, what do you think?

	Ingo
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