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Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code
Date 2016-06-19 23:30 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
> Move the low-level context switch code to an out-of-line asm stub instead of
> using complex inline asm.  This allows constructing a new stack frame for the
> child process to make it seamlessly flow to ret_from_fork without an extra
> test and branch in __switch_to().  It also improves code generation for
> __schedule() by using the C calling convention instead of clobbering all
> registers.

This is great.  The conflict with my stack code is minimal enough that
I won't bother rebasing unless someone specifically wants me to.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

--Andy

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[PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 23:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-19 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86: Rewrite switch_to() code Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-06-20 17:50 +0200

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