Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 2015 10:16:35 +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 Mon, 18 May 2015, Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > The MPX code can only work on the current task. You can 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. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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