Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Allow nesting of the debug stack IDT setting

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 15:25 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 11:58 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > What you have here is a nesting counter, which is good, but I have
> > some objections to the implementation.
> > 
> > The name "debug_idt_zero" doesn't convey a counter in any way, shape
> > or form; perhaps debug_stack_users or something like that.
> 
> Well, it is 'debug_idt_SET_zero' which is what it is doing, regardless
> of counter (see below). But perhaps we should change it to:
> 
> debug_idt_get()
> debug_idt_put()

Bah, silly me, I misunderstood you. You were talking about the counter
itself, not the function names.

OK, will fix.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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