On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote: >> evil about the reset stuff, or just debug bits? m88k also calls it from >> cpu_switchto; other archs have inlined it...) > > The use of savectx() in cpu_switchto on m88k was simply to avoid code > duplication. If you have longterm plans involving the demise of > savectx(), it can easily be inlined into cpu_switchto() - there is > nothing technical preventing this.
No plans, just "this is different; is it obsolete holdover from when things were done differently (like cpu_fork?) or still the Right Thing?" For example, tempting to rename sparc64's snapshot to savectx, to make it consistent with the others. <shurg> Philip
