Re: [PATCH]porting lockless mce from x86_64 to i386

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > 
>  > Doing it either way should be OK with this mce code. But I feel, 
>  > despite of the patch size, it is better to keep all the shared 
>  > code in i386 tree and link it from x86-64. Otherwise, it may become 
>  > kind of messy in future, with various links between i386 and x86-64.
> 
>  i386 already uses code from x86-64 (earlyprintk.c) - it is nothing 
>  new.

I must say I don't like the bidirectional sharing either.

But I guess it'll be simple enough to fix up if it causes any real problems
in the future.

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