This was an optimization that made memcpy type benchmarks a little
faster on ancient (Circa 1998) IDT Winchip CPUs. In real-life
workloads, it wasn't even noticable, and I doubt anyone is running
benchmarks on 16 year old silicon any more.
Given this code has likely seen very little use over the last decade,
let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently on UML stack traces are not very reliable and both
x86 and x86_64 have their on implementations.
This patch unifies both and adds support to outline unreliable
functions calls.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
... and switch get_thread_register() to HOST_... for register numbers
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
it's x86-only and we have no business playing with it in asm/mmu.h; make
the latter have
struct uml_arch_mm_context arch;
instead of
struct uml_ldt ldt;
and let arch/<subarch>/um/asm/mm_context.h decide what'll be in there.
While we are at it, kill host_ldt.h - it's not needed in part of places
that include it (we want asm/ldt.h in those) and it can be trivially
expanded into the single remaining one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
analog of [PATCH] i386: let usermode execute the "enter" instruction from
circa 2006.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Dave Jones
Richard Weinberger
Al Viro
Al Viro