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From:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
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Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 - 5:50 am
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
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> > And that from a person who on the other hand wants to introduce (and > > tries to force on other people) deprecation periods for unused > > EXPORT_SYMBOL's. > > why does this bother you? The API makes total sense. This is a > completely sensible API (with a full implementation) to use > non-temporal copies. I mean, if this was some legacy API that nobody > uses anymore i'd agree, but this is about the ability to access > user-space memory via SSE2+ non-temporal stores.
Adrian, you have still not answered the (obvious) question: why do such currently-unused exports bother you? Ingo --
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x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Adrian Bunk
, (Thu Jan 31, 4:14 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Andrew Morton
, (Thu Jan 31, 5:05 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Adrian Bunk
, (Sat Feb 2, 5:36 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Ingo Molnar
, (Mon Feb 4, 3:58 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Adrian Bunk
, (Sun Feb 10, 6:16 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Andrew Morton
, (Sat Feb 2, 6:06 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Ingo Molnar
, (Thu Jan 31, 5:18 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Ingo Molnar
, (Thu Jan 31, 4:31 pm)
Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?
, Ingo Molnar
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