RE: revising [patch] add arch_ptrace_stop() hook and use it on ia64

2007-07-20 Thread Luck, Tony
> Is anyone ia64-savy interested in revising the patch posted by David in > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111575781225495&w=2 ? > > This would allow for converting ia64 to the generic ptrace code, > something I would love to see. Aren't we heading towards "utrace" as a ptrace replacement? -T

Re: [IA64] Add mapping table between irq and vector

2007-07-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:17:28 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:59:17 GMT > Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > + BUG_ON(bind_irq_vector(irq, vector)); > > It's not good practice to do assert(expression-with-side-effects). Because >

Re: [IA64] Add mapping table between irq and vector

2007-07-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:59:17 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + BUG_ON(bind_irq_vector(irq, vector)); It's not good practice to do assert(expression-with-side-effects). Because if someone wants to create a build which has all the assertions disabled, the resulting b

revising [patch] add arch_ptrace_stop() hook and use it on ia64

2007-07-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Is anyone ia64-savy interested in revising the patch posted by David in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111575781225495&w=2 ? This would allow for converting ia64 to the generic ptrace code, something I would love to see. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" i

Re: git pull on ia64 linux tree

2007-07-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Luck, Tony wrote: > > This will update the files shown below. I'm touching a few > non-ia64 files (they are at the bottom of the diffstat) in here > to delete the CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION code that nobody except > ia64 used. Thanks. That timekeeping duplication was confus

git pull on ia64 linux tree

2007-07-20 Thread Luck, Tony
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git release This will update the files shown below. I'm touching a few non-ia64 files (they are at the bottom of the diffstat) in here to delete the CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION code that nobody except

Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix ia64 clocksource

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Picco
luck wrote: [Fri Jul 20 2007, 12:33:43PM EDT] > > I need to make the cleanups Tony identified. After that how would you like > > to > > proceed? Combining your patch 1/3 and my 1/2 seems logical. > > I've done the cleanup, and merged Seto-san's parts 1,2,3 with your part 1, and > updated it a

RE: [PATCH 0/3] fix ia64 clocksource

2007-07-20 Thread Luck, Tony
> I need to make the cleanups Tony identified. After that how would you like to > proceed? Combining your patch 1/3 and my 1/2 seems logical. I've done the cleanup, and merged Seto-san's parts 1,2,3 with your part 1, and updated it all for the tip of Linus' tree. Result is below. Part 2 stayed t

Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix ia64 clocksource

2007-07-20 Thread Bob Picco
Hi, Sorry for the delay in response. Hidetoshi Seto wrote: [Wed Jul 18 2007, 10:58:55AM EDT] > Hi all, > > This is a set of patch for ia64 clocksource to improve performance > of fsys_gettimeofday (and also normal gettimeofday). > > [1/3] copy time structures into fsys_gtod_data > [2/3] sepa