* Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:54:21PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > > > op 17-10-13 12:52, Peter Zijlstra schreef: > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 07:45:29PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > > >> Commit 040a0a37 "mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks" used > > > >> "!__builtin_constant_p(p == NULL)" but gcc 3.x cannot handle such > > > >> expression > > > >> correctly, leading to boot failure when built with > > > >> CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y. > > > > So I completely forgot all about this, but wouldn't something like: > > > > > > > > !(__builtin_constant_p(p) && p == NULL) > > > > > > > > Not also work and generate the same code? > > > > > > > See earlier discussion. It was already answered why that was undesirable. > > > ;) > > > > OK; I forgot if we covered that particular option.. I so hate this > > patch; but I'm afraid we'll have to take it :-/ > > > > I see. Ingo, would you send this patch via your tree? > Then, I'll post a patch for 3.11-stable which differs white spaces.
If it has Maarten's and PeterZ's Acked-by then sure. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/