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From: James E Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix 2.6 kernel for the new ia64 assembler
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:19:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128709191.375.5.camel@aretha.corp.specifix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051007180119.GA11645@lucon.org>

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:01, H. J. Lu wrote:
> The new ia64 assembler uses slot 1 for the offset of a long (2-slot)
> instruction and the old assembler uses slot 2. The 2.6 kernel assumes
> slot 2 and won't boot when the new assembler is used:

Specifically, this is in reference to tags occurring immediately before
a long instruction.

Given something like
	.text
	nop
[L1:]
	movl
The value of L1 should be .text+1 but it was incorrectly .text+2 until
about 2 weeks ago.  Unfortunately, there is code in the kernel that
relies on the incorrect value, and needs to be fixed.  H.J.'s patch
fixes this.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-07 18:01 PATCH: Fix 2.6 kernel for the new ia64 assembler H. J. Lu
2005-10-07 18:05 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2005-10-07 18:19 ` James E Wilson [this message]
2005-10-07 19:27 ` Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
2005-10-07 19:56 ` James E Wilson

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