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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] x86: Add classes to exception tables
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
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> Linus, Peter, Ingo, Thomas: Can we head this direction? The code is cleaner
> and more flexible. Or should we stick with Andy's clever way to squeeze a
> couple of "class" bits into the fixup field of the exception table?

I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody.

So I think Borislav's patch has the advantage of being pretty
straightforward and allowing arbitrary fixups, in case we end up
having localized special cases..

               Linus