Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Should we re-add them for the function pointers in asm-x86/paravirt.h?

yes, yes, yes. :-) It was a nightmare to sort it out in -rt (and still 
is). It's also good documentation - it pinpoints functions that are 
called from assembly.

> Andi argued we should remove them since x86 is unconditionally regparm 
> now anyway - and they're pretty ugly syntactically.

Sure, it doesnt make things prettier, but i didnt see any particular 
ugliness.

	Ingo
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