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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a ptep_modify_prot
	transaction	abstraction
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:06:44 -0700
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>   
>> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Below is the commit, it needed a small amount of massaging to apply the 
>>>> void * -> unsigned long * change in the x86/bitops topic.
>>>>         
>>> Well, that's your bug right there.
>>>
>>> The macros very much depended on the pointers being "void *", due to 
>>> the pointer arithmetic (which is a gcc extension that we use 
>>> extensively - "void *" arithmetic works as if it was a byte 
>>> pointer).
>>>       
>> duh, yeah - of course. Will retry with that fixed :)
>>     
>
> yep, the patch below got it all going and it passed 5 hours of testing 
> already. Thanks,
>   

Blows up on "gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)":

  CC      init/main.o
include2/asm/bitops.h: In function `start_kernel':
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: warning: asm operand 1 probably doesn't match constraints
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
include2/asm/bitops.h:59: error: impossible constraint in `asm'

	J