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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org,
	LukeBrowning@us.ibm.com, takata@linux-m32r.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add thread_info_cache_init() to all archs
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:52:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521135230.69c04ab4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211399081.8297.234.camel@pasglop>

On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:44:41 -0400
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > yup, gcc bug.  Discussed recently on lkml, "Subject: Re: huge gcc
> > 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem".  I don't think anything ended up happening
> > about it though.
> 
> Hrm... do you think we should work around ? ie. move the stubs to a
> separate .c file ?
> 

istr that sticking an asm(""); in the weak function was a reliable
workaround.  If we are going to to that it should be via

/* comment goes here */
#define gcc_screws_up_weak_stuff() asm("")

but that approach didn't seem very popular.  It's a _bit_ fragile I
guess, but it's pretty easy to grep for missed workarounds.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10  3:22 [PATCH 1/2] Add thread_info_cache_init() to all archs Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-10 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-14  0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14  0:38   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-14  2:13     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18  3:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-04-18  4:19         ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-18  4:38           ` Michael Ellerman
2008-04-18  6:44           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 17:56             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 18:41               ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 19:06                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-21 20:38                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 19:44                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 20:52                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-18  4:21         ` Kyle McMartin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-10 23:36 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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