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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com,
	imirkin@alum.mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, robdclark@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 3.12] mutex: Avoid gcc version dependent__builtin_constant_p() usage.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:13:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131018131326.GA24572@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201310182151.AGF16889.SQOFJOtVLFFMHO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>


* Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:54:21PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > > op 17-10-13 12:52, Peter Zijlstra schreef:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 07:45:29PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > >> Commit 040a0a37 "mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks" used
> > > >> "!__builtin_constant_p(p == NULL)" but gcc 3.x cannot handle such expression
> > > >> correctly, leading to boot failure when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y.
> > > > So I completely forgot all about this, but wouldn't something like:
> > > >
> > > >  !(__builtin_constant_p(p) && p == NULL)
> > > >
> > > > Not also work and generate the same code?
> > > >
> > > See earlier discussion. It was already answered why that was undesirable. ;)
> > 
> > OK; I forgot if we covered that particular option.. I so hate this
> > patch; but I'm afraid we'll have to take it :-/
> > 
> 
> I see. Ingo, would you send this patch via your tree?
> Then, I'll post a patch for 3.11-stable which differs white spaces.

If it has Maarten's and PeterZ's Acked-by then sure.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-17 10:45 [PATCH for 3.12] mutex: Avoid gcc version dependent __builtin_constant_p() usage Tetsuo Handa
2013-10-17 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-17 10:54   ` Maarten Lankhorst
2013-10-17 11:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-18 12:51       ` [PATCH for 3.12] mutex: Avoid gcc version dependent__builtin_constant_p() usage Tetsuo Handa
2013-10-18 13:13         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-18 15:51           ` Maarten Lankhorst
2013-10-30 13:14             ` [PATCH 3.11-stable] mutex: Avoid gcc version dependent __builtin_constant_p() usage Tetsuo Handa
2013-10-20 19:31 ` [tip:core/urgent] " tip-bot for Tetsuo Handa

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