linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] traps: x86: irqtrace cleanup and some traps.c unification

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Message-ID: <20080927163000.GB4600@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:30:00 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] traps: x86: irqtrace cleanup and some traps.c
	unification


* Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm> wrote:

> Aparantly the conversion of exceptions from traps to interrupts and 
> the changes to the irq-tracer on i386 have not given any trouble, yet? 
> (tip/x86/traps)

Correct.

Generally you'll hear from the -tip maintainers if there's any trouble 
with a topic. If you see it integrated into tip/master and if you see no 
comments then it means that they work just fine.

> This is a small set of patches removing trace_hardirqs_fixup 
> completely from the code. TRACE_IRQS_OFF is added to the assembly code 
> instead, where needed.
>
> 7/7 is a small unification step between traps_32.c and traps_64.c

cool! Any plans on finishing the unification? ;-)

> Patches were generated against tip/x86/traps.

applied to tip/x86/traps, thanks.

	Ingo
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