Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 8/10] UML - Maintain own LDT entries

[Blaisorblade]

On Monday 07 November 2005 13:20, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
> Blaisorblade wrote:
> > On Monday 31 October 2005 05:39, Jeff Dike wrote:
> >>From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Or at least so I think (I must still give a proper look afterwards, and
> > I'll post patches). Actually it seems that this is done on purpose, but I
> > don't agree too much on this. I will see.

>  From the beginning my new code for SKAS included the checks/buffering you
> later inserted for TT and SKAS. So this patch is a second version adapted
> to your changes. It shifts your improvements into TT path only (where I
> didn't do any changes in my old patch), while it uses my own stuff for
> SKAS. Thus the patch doesn't really revert your improvements, but restricts
> it to TT. As in SKAS0 UML now holds its own LDT data, there is no need for
> buffering in this case. So I think it makes sense to have separate code for
> SKAS.
Yep, ok - I'm undecided about the new code for SKAS3, but it may make sense 
(i.e. no opinion).

Instead, I have another question: is there a proper reason for using the 
processor format for storing the info and translating it back to (struct 
user_desc)? I am planning to avoid this double translation because I don't 
like it. Any opinion?
-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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