Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262270AbTFBM2A (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:28:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262269AbTFBM2A (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:28:00 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:39838 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262270AbTFBM1w (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:27:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 05:40:16 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Gianni Tedesco , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h Message-ID: <20030602124016.GP8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Nikita Danilov , Gianni Tedesco , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton References: <16088.47088.814881.791196@laputa.namesys.com> <1054406992.4837.0.camel@sherbert> <20030531185709.GK8978@holomorphy.com> <16091.14923.815819.792026@laputa.namesys.com> <20030602121457.GO8978@holomorphy.com> <16091.17602.257293.364468@laputa.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16091.17602.257293.364468@laputa.namesys.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1146 Lines: 28 William Lee Irwin III writes: >> Someone needs to doublecheck whether this actually works. Last I heard, On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:36:18PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > I don't quite understand. __attribute_const is defined as > #define __attribute_const __attribute__ ((__const__)) > so, after preprocessing prototypes of get_current() and > current_thread_info() will be the same as before patch, modulo spacing. William Lee Irwin III writes: >> it did not, but that could have changed since. It vaguely appears some >> assumption about it working was made recently since __const__ was there. On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:36:18PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > I am currently running ./fsstress -p 111 on patched kernel on 2*XEON > 2.20GHz with hyper threading. Sounds good. If you could doublecheck the assembly to make sure it's doing the right thing, that would be good, too. Thanks. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/