Re: [PATCHv2 0/4] x86, entry: some cleanup and simplification...

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Alexander van Heukelum
<heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 13:05, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> btw, you might wanna sync with Denys who's doing cleanups in that area too:
>>
>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421272101-16847-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> and touching some of the stuff you're changing too.
>
> Thanks. FWIW, the change touches the same area in code, but is orthogonal in concept.

My patches eventually eliminate both ARGOFFSET and KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET.
For example, eventually TI_flags tests look like this after all my patches:

testl $const, TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,SIZEOF_PTREGS)

Your patches massage the same defines in a different way than mine do.
We clearly have a conflict here.
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