Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns toinclude/asm/debugreg.

[Paul Gortmaker]

[Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.] On 27/01/2012 (Fri 12:51) Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Since we already have a debugreg.h header file, move the
> > assoc. get/set functions to it.  In addition to it being the
> > logical home for them, it has a secondary advantage.  The
> > functions that are moved use BUG().  So we really need to
> > have linux/bug.h in scope.  But asm/processor.h is used about
> > 600 times, vs. only about 15 for debugreg.h -- so adding bug.h
> > to the latter reduces the amount of time we'll be processing
> > it during a compile.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h  |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |   63 -----------------------------------
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c     |    1 +
> >  3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I suspect you'd like to carry this in your tree, so that all 
> these patches are together?

Yes, that was my original intent, unless there is a consensus
from people indicating that they'd really rather not see such
standalone cleanup trees exist at all.

Thanks,
Paul.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo
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