Re: 2.6.8.1-mm4

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 15:59:29 EST


On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:34:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/
> - Added the kexec code. Again. This was in -mm a year or so ago but didn't
> make it.
> - This kernel has an x86 patch which alters the copy_*_user() functions so
> they will return -EFAULT on a fault rather than the number of bytes which
> remain to be copied. This is a bit of an experiment, because this seems to
> be the preferred API for those functions. It's a see-what-breaks thing.
> And things will break. If weird behaviour is observed, please revert
> usercopy-return-EFAULT.patch and send a report.

__builtin_return_address() with non-constant arguments is unsupported on
various architectures.


fs/reiser4/context.c: In function `get_context_ok':
fs/reiser4/context.c:88: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:89: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:90: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:91: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:92: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:93: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:94: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:95: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:96: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:97: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:98: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:99: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:100: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:101: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
fs/reiser4/context.c:102: warning: unsupported arg to `__builtin_return_address'
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