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Message-ID: <20110725101902.GP4362@sun>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:19:02 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] minor cleanups to EFLAGS initialisation in
ret_from_fork
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:58:03AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The following series removes the use of a global kernel_eflags variable
> from the x86_64 ret_from_fork path and (very slightly) merges the 32 and
> 64 bit version of that code path.
>
> kernel_eflags could be made a __read_mostly but actually there is no
> reason to prefer the value at cpu_init() time to a compile time constant
> value for the initial eflags after a fork.
>
> Ian.
>
Thanks, Ian! I think noone against this simplification, Peter, Andi?
Cyrill
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