linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not

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Message-ID: <73c1f2160902110646o5c76785anb93efab5821eba23@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:46:46 -0500
From:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not_available()

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> Brian Gerst wrote:
>> I don't quite follow what you are trying to say here.  Are you saying
>> use the same calling convention for the exception handlers (anything
>> called from error_code) and system calls?
>
> Yeap.

Doesn't make sense to me, two very fundamentally different things.  I
supposed you could eliminate the error_code parameter, but that's alot
of work to remove just one instruction.

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Brian Gerst
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