Re: [PATCH 6/6] Do not use FASTCALL for __alloc_pages_nodemask()

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 17 August 2007 23:07:33 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Opinions as to why FASTCALL breaks on one machine are welcome.
> 
> Could we get rid of FASTCALL? AFAIK the compiler should automatically 
> choose the right calling convention?

It was a nop for some time because register parameters are always enabled
on i386 and AFAIK no other architectures ever used it. Some out of tree
trees some to disable register parameters though, but that's not 
really a concern.

-Andi


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