| Date | Mon, 18 May 2015 22:38:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/19] x86, mpx: cleanup: do not pass task around when unnecessary |
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On Fri, 8 May 2015, Dave Hansen wrote: > The MPX code can largely only work on the current task. You can
s/largely// ?
> not, for instance, enable MPX management in another process or > thread. You can also not handle a fault for another process > or thread. > > Despite this, we pass a task_struct around prolifically. This > patch removes all of the task struct passing for code paths > where the code can not deal with another task (which turns out > to be all of them). > > This has no functional changes. It's just a cleanup.
See also reply to previous patch.
Thanks,
tglx
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