Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support

2015-08-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dave Hansen wrote: > > From: Dave Hansen > > LightWeight Profiling was evidently an AMD profiling feature that > we never got around to implementing. Remove the references to it. > > This patch is a *bit* worrisome becuase it will implicitly cause > 'struct xregs_state' to shrink. This e

[PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support

2015-08-27 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Dave Hansen LightWeight Profiling was evidently an AMD profiling feature that we never got around to implementing. Remove the references to it. This patch is a *bit* worrisome becuase it will implicitly cause 'struct xregs_state' to shrink. This effectively removes some unused padding t

[PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support

2015-08-25 Thread Dave Hansen
From: Dave Hansen LightWeight Profiling was evidently an AMD profiling feature that we never got around to implementing. Remove the references to it. This patch is a *bit* worrisome becuase it will implicitly cause 'struct xregs_state' to shrink. This effectively removes some unused padding t