On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:20:49PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > FASTCALL is defined empty in -mm, but UML is not compiled with > > > -mregparm=3 and so this breaks things (I noticed problems with > > > rwsem_down_write_failed). > > > > > > Tried recompiling UML with -mregparm=3, but that resulted in a strange > > > failure immediately after startup: > > > > > > |%G�%@: Invalid argument > > > > > > What's up? > > > > UML links with glibc and that does not use -mregparm. > > > > You can only use -mregparm in user space if you recompile > > all libraries too. > > Ah, right. I didn't think of that. > > Does that mean that FASTCALL removals will have to be undone? Or is > there an alternative?
It's enough when we keep fastcall/FASTCALL in the few cases where UML calls assembler code with this calling convention. [1] > Miklos cu Adrian [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/425 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/
