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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:04:28 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doreti() and userret()
Message-ID:  <20020119110428.Z13686@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201190933540.2065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:49:48AM -0800
References:  <20020120034844.A5320-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201190933540.2065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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* Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [020119 10:01] wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > > Userret() is supposed to be called the last thing before the
> > > processor is returned to userland..
> > 
> > At least on i386's, this is only true for the pessimized returns from
> > syscall() and trap().  Returns from interrupt handlers normally just
> > return.  They sometimes (rarely) go through ast() to handle cases where
> > userret() would do something.  In my version of FreeBSD, userret() is
> > almost a no-op and almost all the things that were in userret() are in
> > ast().
> 
> So, Bruce, can you outline to use what is in BDEBSD that we can expect
> to see in the future? It soulds to em like it would be nice to get some
> more of your work in..

I would too, Bruce please stop holding out on us.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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