From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kaos@ocs.com.au,
xyzzy@speakeasy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:26:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A7B1EA.7030303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070725.123501.71119586.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
>
> Another issue is that if you have a conditional trap instruction on
> your cpu, and you try the __label__ trick, GCC no longer converts:
>
> BUG_ON(test)
>
> into just a:
>
> set condition codes;
> conditional_trap;
>
> sequence because the "stuff" inside the basic block is something
> more than just the __builtin_trap().
>
> The holy grail would be being able to get the perfect conditional
> trap sequence, plus the annotations in a seperate section.
I think that would require a custom gcc builtin, which we might be able
to ask the gcc folks for...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-25 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 15:39 [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG() Al Viro
2007-07-24 16:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 17:14 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 18:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-24 19:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-24 20:04 ` Al Viro
2007-07-24 21:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 2:31 ` Trent Piepho
2007-07-25 2:50 ` Keith Owens
2007-07-25 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 6:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 6:29 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 6:50 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-07-25 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:25 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 19:35 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-25 19:28 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 17:19 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 17:26 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:35 ` David Howells
2007-07-25 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-25 20:29 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-25 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-25 22:01 ` David Miller
2007-07-25 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 17:36 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25 17:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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