On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:07 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > I would suggest a slightly different carving. For one, no TLB flushes. > > If you can't modify PTEs, why do you need to have TLB flushes? And I > > would allow CR0 read / write for code which saves and restores FPU state > > no that is abstracted away by kernel_fpu_begin/end. Modules have no > business doing that themselves
Sure, but it'll take some time to fix the raid modules (which are the ones which abuse this). I'm testing a patch now, I'll send the clts removal patch on top of that once it's done. Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
