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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in	2.6.23-final.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:45:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071022124551.GA7438@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022124322.GB8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>


* Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> in kernel/sched.c
> 
> FWIW, I would simply kill the damn fastcall thing - right now the only 
> user is uml/i386; everything else either has it #defined to nothing or 
> (as i386 does) passes -mregparm=3 while having fastcall expand to 
> __attribute__((regparm(3))) - i.e. has all functions fastcall.
> 
> Do we really need it on uml/i386 enough to keep bothering with that 
> mess?

we should kill it there too.

the only place where we should _please_ keep those annotations are for 
functions that get called from assembly code. This makes life immensely 
easier for -pg (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACING) kernels.

	Ingo

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:45:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071022124551.GA7438@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022124322.GB8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>


* Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> in kernel/sched.c
> 
> FWIW, I would simply kill the damn fastcall thing - right now the only 
> user is uml/i386; everything else either has it #defined to nothing or 
> (as i386 does) passes -mregparm=3 while having fastcall expand to 
> __attribute__((regparm(3))) - i.e. has all functions fastcall.
> 
> Do we really need it on uml/i386 enough to keep bothering with that 
> mess?

we should kill it there too.

the only place where we should _please_ keep those annotations are for 
functions that get called from assembly code. This makes life immensely 
easier for -pg (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACING) kernels.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-11 22:54 [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final Rob Landley
2007-10-11 22:54 ` Rob Landley
2007-10-20  0:52 ` [uml-devel] " Paolo Giarrusso
2007-10-20  0:52   ` Paolo Giarrusso
2007-10-20 11:41   ` Nix
2007-10-20 11:41     ` Nix
2007-10-21 11:48     ` WANG Cong
2007-10-21 11:48       ` WANG Cong
2007-10-21 13:08       ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-21 13:08         ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-21 13:20         ` WANG Cong
2007-10-21 13:20           ` WANG Cong
2007-10-21 15:43           ` Al Viro
2007-10-21 15:43             ` Al Viro
2007-10-22  4:37             ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  4:37               ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  5:22               ` Al Viro
2007-10-22  5:22                 ` Al Viro
2007-10-22  6:12                 ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  6:12                   ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  6:42                   ` Nix
2007-10-22  6:42                     ` Nix
2007-10-22  6:52                     ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  6:52                       ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  6:59                       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-22  6:59                         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-22  7:48                         ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  7:48                           ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22  7:58                           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-22  7:58                             ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-22 11:36                           ` Al Viro
2007-10-22 11:36                             ` Al Viro
2007-10-22 12:25                             ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22 12:25                               ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22 12:30                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-22 12:30                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-22 12:39                                 ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22 12:39                                   ` WANG Cong
2007-10-22 12:43                               ` Al Viro
2007-10-22 12:43                                 ` Al Viro
2007-10-22 12:45                                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-10-22 12:45                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-22 23:14                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 23:14                                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 23:19                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-22 23:19                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-22 23:26                                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 23:26                                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 23:56                                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 23:56                                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-23  8:45                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23  8:45                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 12:55                                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 12:55                                             ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 13:10                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 13:10                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 14:01                                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 14:01                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 14:20                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 14:20                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 14:31                                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-23 14:31                                                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-23 14:47                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 14:47                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 15:11                                                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 15:11                                                         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 14:48                                                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 14:48                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 15:13                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 15:13                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 15:44                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 15:44                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-23 16:57                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 16:57                                                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 13:25                                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 13:25                                             ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 14:20                                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-23 14:20                                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 15:33                                 ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-22 15:33                                   ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-22  7:01                       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-22  7:01                         ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-22  7:27                   ` Al Viro
2007-10-22  7:27                     ` Al Viro
2007-10-22 20:24             ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-22 20:24               ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-24 15:22 ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-24 15:22   ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-24 16:14   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 16:14     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 16:14     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-24 21:46   ` Rob Landley
2007-10-24 21:46     ` Rob Landley
2007-10-25  0:43     ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-25  0:43       ` Jeff Dike
2007-10-25  0:43       ` Jeff Dike

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