On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 16:47 +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > No one should be probing registers without making sure it is safe to do > so. Even on non virtualized hardware this can be a dangerous thing to > do.
Won't people writing per machine code consider, not unreasonably, that having been called through a mdesc machine specific hook constitutes enough "making sure" that they think it is safe to touch registers which are specific to that machine? Ian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
