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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amd64 bitops fix for -Os
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:23:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030192323.GF657@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orvezggf7x.fsf@livre.oliva.athome.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

Hi!

> This patches fixes a bug that comes up when compiling the kernel for
> x86_64 optimizing for size.  It affects 2.6.14 for sure, but I'm
> pretty sure many earlier kernels are affected as well.

Is the same problem in i386, too?

> --- arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c~	2005-10-27 22:02:08.000000000 -0200
> +++ arch/x86_64/lib/bitops.c	2005-10-29 18:24:27.000000000 -0200
> @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
>  #include <linux/bitops.h>
>  
> +#define BITOPS_CHECK_UNDERFLOW_RANGE 0
> +
> +#if BITOPS_CHECK_UNDERFLOW_RANGE
> +# include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#endif

Could you drop the ifdefs? Nice for debugging but we don't
want them in mainline.

Plus you want to add signed-off-by: header and send it to ak@suse.de.
				Pavel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-29 21:56 amd64 bitops fix for -Os Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-29 23:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-30 10:56 ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-30 19:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-10-31 20:09   ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-31 21:14     ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-31 17:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2005-10-31 20:29   ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-31 20:59     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-03 18:55   ` Andi Kleen

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