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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:24:14 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	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

On 10/13/2009 03:30 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

First of all, the unification looks good.

As far as .32 is concerned... this *is* a bug even if this is only for
paravirt, and given the small amount of code I am personally OK with
taking the whole patch for .32.

However, the patch is not complete!  The patch incidentally eliminates
the need to have assembly stubs for sys_iopl, and those assembly stubs
should be removed.  I have a patch for that currently test building.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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