Re: [newbie] Re: Is it possible to directly call do_path_lookup() in kernel?

Thanks for your reply. But more details are appreciated. Actually I checked linkage.h before I sent last email. Looks like "fastcall" is used to direct the compiler to put the first 3 parameters into registers instead of stack. But I just don't understand why that causes "general protection

Re: [newbie] Re: Is it possible to directly call do_path_lookup() in kernel?

Thanks for your reply. But more details are appreciated. Actually I checked linkage.h before I sent last email. Looks like fastcall is used to direct the compiler to put the first 3 parameters into registers instead of stack. But I just don't understand why that causes general protection fault.

[newbie] Re: Is it possible to directly call do_path_lookup() in kernel?

On 2007-01-24, Xin Zhao wrote: > Archived-At: Hallo. > I just successfully called do_path_lookup() in my kernel module. I > just removed the "fastcall" from the declaration of do_path_lookup(), > then the problem disappeared. I don't quite

[newbie] Re: Is it possible to directly call do_path_lookup() in kernel?

On 2007-01-24, Xin Zhao wrote: Archived-At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485775 Hallo. I just successfully called do_path_lookup() in my kernel module. I just removed the fastcall from the declaration of do_path_lookup(), then the problem disappeared. I don't quite