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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:06:38 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
penberg@...helsinki.fi, vegard.nossum@...il.com, efault@....de,
npiggin@...e.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support
to use NMI-safe methods
On 06/15/09 13:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> We have to restore the usermode %gs somewhere...
>>
>
> None of this is useful for user-mode return _anyway_, since you have to
> restore %cs/%ss too. At that point, you have to use iret.
>
Ah, right. I'd even looked at that at one point, when I was
investigating optimising kernel->kernel exit paths (I'd decided it
wasn't worth it for its own sake, since they simply don't happen that
often).
J
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