[Added Chris Wright, Rusty and Virt list because they were involved with this issue before]
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +# function tracing might turn this off: > > +config REGPARM > > + bool > > + depends on !MCOUNT > > + default y > > are you sure -pg really needs this? Nope! Arnaldo and I only carried it because you had it ;-) > I just carried this along the years > and went the path of least resistence, but we should not be > reintroducing the !REGPARM build mode for the kernel. I'd not be > surprised if there were a few issues with REGPARM + mcount, but we have > to figure it out before merging ... Hmm, I know paravirt-ops had an issue with mcount in the RT tree. I can't remember the exact issues, but it did have something to do with the way parameters were passed in. Chris, do you remember what the issues were? I'm also thinking that this is only an i386 issue. Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
