Re: gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-17 Thread Johannes Berg
> > IMHO the context extension doesn't work well enough in sparse to > > document and implement as is. It would be much better if it actually was > > able to differentiate between contexts, rather than treating each one > > the same. > > That would certainly be nice, but that's something actually

Re: gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:33:16AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 21:27 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > However, I would also like support for the context extensions, but I'm > > not knowledgeable enough to describe the semantics accurately. Would > > anyone be willing to

Re: gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:27:08PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I have filed gcc tickets asking for direct support in gcc for some > sparse extensions that we use heavily in the kernel: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59850 > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59851 > >

Re: gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-17 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 21:27 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > However, I would also like support for the context extensions, but I'm > not knowledgeable enough to describe the semantics accurately. Would > anyone be willing to file a ticket describing how the context extension > works well enough th

Re: gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/16/2014 09:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hi, > > I have filed gcc tickets asking for direct support in gcc for some > sparse extensions that we use heavily in the kernel: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59850 > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59851 > Add: http

gcc tickets for sparse attributes

2014-01-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hi, I have filed gcc tickets asking for direct support in gcc for some sparse extensions that we use heavily in the kernel: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59850 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59851 However, I would also like support for the context extensions, but I'm n