From: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] Fixing the 2.4 bugs - patches against 2.4.24-1um
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:55:48 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407091236400.18897@tuxrocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407081832.39138.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> Yes, you are right. Compliments for that - I would have never seen such a
> panic (I understand you perfectly, but I missed it and would have missed it
> again). So thanks a lot for helping with it - I'll save that for when I'm
> back (I'm leaving now, so have no time at all to do anything). Your catch also
> means that UML will break without -DUM_FASTCALL, which is not nice: the buggy
> change you see has actually uncovered some other bug; if it weren't so, the
> bug you have fixed would only have hurted performance.
Correct. I've verified that UML does break without -DUM_FASTCALL, even on
the 'stable' 2.4.24-1um patch, so the problem was probably introduced at
some point earlier. Does anyone know the history behind UM_FASTCALL, its'
effects, and when related modifications occurred?
Frank
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 18:50 [uml-devel] Fixing the 2.4 bugs - patches against 2.4.24-1um BlaisorBlade
2004-07-07 20:51 ` Frank Sorenson
2004-07-08 16:38 ` [uml-user] " BlaisorBlade
2004-07-09 19:55 ` Frank Sorenson [this message]
2004-07-13 19:34 ` Jeff Dike
2004-07-15 15:39 ` Frank Sorenson
2004-07-21 17:27 ` [uml-devel] Fixing the 2.4 bugs - patches against 2.4.24-1um - new ones BlaisorBlade
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