thread-ready ABIs

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, H . J . Lu wrote:

> But it has to be a per thread value.

 But threads run under different contexts in Linux, AFAIK.

> This is a patch against 2.4.16. Will this restore k1 to a known per
> thread value?

 It wouldn't -- k1 isn't saved.  And there are TLB exception handlers (the
most important performance issue here) that don't use framing at all --
see arch/mips/mm/tlbex-r?k.S.

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