Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in2.6.23-final.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 08:46:23 EST



* Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> in kernel/sched.c
>
> FWIW, I would simply kill the damn fastcall thing - right now the only
> user is uml/i386; everything else either has it #defined to nothing or
> (as i386 does) passes -mregparm=3 while having fastcall expand to
> __attribute__((regparm(3))) - i.e. has all functions fastcall.
>
> Do we really need it on uml/i386 enough to keep bothering with that
> mess?

we should kill it there too.

the only place where we should _please_ keep those annotations are for
functions that get called from assembly code. This makes life immensely
easier for -pg (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACING) kernels.

Ingo
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