linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ia64: drop custom exception table implementation

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Message-ID: <20110217172321.GC17058@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:23:21 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	tony.luck@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ia64: drop custom exception table implementation


* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:

> Now that the common extable implementation can deal with the needs
> ia64 has, drop its custom implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
> 
> ---
>  arch/ia64/Kconfig               |    1 
>  arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h |    9 ---
>  arch/ia64/mm/extable.c          |   98 ----------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)

Nice generalization of the exception code.

If Tony acks this patch then we can put the 3 patches into a separate -tip branch 
and test it on x86 and push it into -next for ia64 testing. That would be the 
simplest upstream merge route - if that's fine by Tony as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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