From: "Frédéric Riss" <frederic.riss@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, artiom.myaskouvskey@intel.com,
bjorn.helgaas@hp.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:16:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170184582.21603.76.camel@funkylaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070130111058.db191e07.akpm@osdl.org>
Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 à 11:10 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > This patch fixes the issue for x86, but the file is also used by IA64. I
> > would have used asmlinkage to force arguments on the stack, but it has a
> > special meaning on IA64, thus I used a raw regparm(0) GCC attribute.
> > This attribute is documented only for x86, I hope it has no side effect
> > on other archs.
>
> hm, this sounds like a fairly serious problem. Has this been runtime
> tested on ia64 and x86_64>
Not by me, the only EFI box I've access to is my Mac Mini.
Fred.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 19:01 [PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack Frédéric Riss
2007-01-30 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-30 19:16 ` Frédéric Riss [this message]
2007-01-30 19:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-01-30 20:41 ` Frédéric Riss
2007-02-01 2:32 ` bibo,mao
2007-02-01 8:10 ` Frederic Riss
2007-02-02 1:32 ` bibo,mao
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