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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: fastcalls, was Re: [patch] generic rwsems
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:19:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413101930.GA13169@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413100416.GC31487@wotan.suse.de>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:04:16PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Remove one level of indirection (kernel/rwsem.c -> lib/rwsem.c), and
> give a bit of a cleanup (eg remove the fastcall junk) to make the
> code a bit easier to read.

Arpopos fastcalls, now that -mregparam=3 is the defaul on i386 and
FASTCALL/fastcall is a noop everywhere else can we please get rid
of this attribute entirely?  If any other architecture provides
a more optimal non-standard calling convention we can just use
it by default in kernelspace as a few architectures already do.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-13 10:04 [patch] generic rwsems Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 10:04 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 10:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-04-13 10:59   ` fastcalls, was " Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 10:25 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 10:25   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 11:44   ` David Howells
2007-04-13 11:44     ` David Howells
2007-04-13 12:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-13 12:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-13 10:53 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 10:53   ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 11:20   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 11:20     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 12:09 ` David Howells
2007-04-13 12:09   ` David Howells
2007-04-13 12:43   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 12:43     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 13:22     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 13:22       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 13:31     ` David Howells
2007-04-13 13:31       ` David Howells
2007-04-13 14:03       ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 14:03         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-13 14:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-13 14:29         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-13 14:49         ` David Howells
2007-04-13 14:49           ` David Howells

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