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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: KVM: pvmmu breakage with gcc 4.3.0
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:56:50 +0300
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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I thought a better approach
> was to have __pa do something along the lines of
>
>   ({ char *__buf = (char*)buffer; asm ("" : : "o"(*__buf)); ... })
>
> to make it clear that physical addresses are used.
>
>   

I agree, I think such a patch is important for future-proofing Linux 
against increasing gcc optimization capabilities.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function