Re: [RFC Patch 6/9] Use virtual debug registers in process/threadhandling code

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 20:06:54 EST


> > Hmm. The 64-bit version of __switch_to does the current change much
> > earlier, before __switch_to_xtra and math_state_restore. I wonder if the
> > 32-bit version could change to match. I can't see what in __switch_to_xtra
> > would care either way, though I may be overlooking something. Ingo?
>
> Would it be better to move __switch_to_xtra down below the change to
> current, rather than moving the change to current up above
> __switch_to_xtra?

I can't see that anything else in __switch_to_xtra cares either way.


Thanks,
Roland

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