Re: [PATCH][RFC] getting rid of stupid loop in BUG()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> No, not any more.  The file and line info is out of line, in a separate
> section, indexed by the ud2a's eip.

That's irrelevant - the point is, we need to do the ud2 by hand, since we 
need to control the code generation in order to associate the ud2 with the 
proper file/linenr.

> The main problem with __builtin_trap is that there's no certain way to 
> get the actual ud2a eip (ie, paste an asm label onto it).

Right. Which is why we need to do it as an inline asm.

		Linus
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