Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86-64 put current in r10

Jari Ruusu
2005-11-30T06:39:12Z

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> The following emails contain the patches to convert x86-64 to store current
> in r10 (also at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/patches/v2.6.15-rc3/).
[snip]
> No benchmarks that I am aware of show regressions with this change.

Ben,
Your patch breaks all out-of-tree amd64 assembler code used in kernel. r10
register is one of those registers that does not need to be preserved across
function calls, and reserving that register for other purpose means that all
assembler code using r10 in kernel must be rewritten. This is deeply
unfunny.

Andi,
Please don't apply Ben's patch. It is already bad enough having to deal with
two incompatible calling conventions on 32 bit x86.

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