Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86: TLS cleanup

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:

> 
> This consolidates the four different places that implemented the same
> encoding magic for the GDT-slot 32-bit TLS support.  The old tls32.c is
> renamed and only slightly modified to be the shared implementation guts.

Cool patchset. 

One minor nit: Please do not put stuff into proto.h anymore. I'm
desperately trying to get rid of it.

> diff --git a/include/asm-x86/proto.h b/include/asm-x86/proto.h
> index dabba55..a7aa17d 100644
> --- a/include/asm-x86/proto.h
> +++ b/include/asm-x86/proto.h
> @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ extern void ia32_syscall(void);
>  extern void ia32_cstar_target(void); 
>  extern void ia32_sysenter_target(void); 
>  
> +extern int do_get_thread_area(struct task_struct *p, int idx,
> +			      struct user_desc __user *info);
> +extern int do_set_thread_area(struct task_struct *p, int idx,
> +			      struct user_desc __user *info, int can_allocate);
> +
>  extern void config_acpi_tables(void);
>  extern void ia32_syscall(void);

I pull it into the x86 git tree and look for a better place for
do_[sg]et_thread_area()

Thanks,

	tglx
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