linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions

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Message-ID: <4F907512.9060300@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:26:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions

On 04/19/2012 01:20 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/19/2012 01:17 PM, David Daney wrote:
>> On 04/19/2012 11:55 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Either way I suggest picking up David's presorting patchset since it
>>> is already done and use its infrastructure for any further improvements.
>>
>> It does have the advantage of already being implemented.  There was a
>> little feedback on the kbuild portions of the patch.
>>
>> If you would like, I will send an updated version of the patch.
> 
> Please.  It gets us 90% of the way, and we need the infrastructure
> anyway to do any further work.
> 

Linus, it's not really an x86 patchset, but would you object if I queue
up David's updated patchset in -tip?  I'll try to get an Ack from Ralf
for the MIPS portion.

	-hpa

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