On Friday 09 November 2007 01:19, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > The only problem is that there might be some code who relies on > > restore_flags() restoring other flags that IF, but at least for > > interrupts and local_irq_save/restore it should be fine to change. > > I don't think so. We don't bother to save/restore the other flags in > Xen paravirt and it doesn't seem to cause a problem. The semantics > really are specific to the state of the interrupt flag.
Yes i checked the code and only case I found is actually save_flags, not restore_flags (and that particular case is even unnecessary) -Andi - 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/
