Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86-64 put current in r10

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 14:02 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:21:18PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > Hello Andi,
> > 
> > The following emails contain the patches to convert x86-64 to store current 
> > in r10 (also at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/patches/v2.6.15-rc3/).  This 
> > provides a significant amount of code savings (~43KB) over the current 
> > use of the per cpu data area.  I also tested using r15, but that generated 
> > code that was larger than that generated with r10.  This code seems to be 
> > working well for me now (it stands up to 32 and 64 bit processes and ptrace 
> > users) and would be a good candidate for further exposure.
> 
> Looks good thanks. It will need longer testing though.

is it -mm ready?


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