Date: 14 Jan 2004 10:30:31 +0100
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:30:31 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jh@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3
Message-ID: <20040114093031.GA19652@colin2.muc.de>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:16:30AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:06:03AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Using -mregparm=3 shrinks the kernel further:
> 
> Note that there is a dependence on this patch - as highlighted by Arjan,
> CardServices() breaks when built on x86 with -mregparm.
> 
> Therefore, the CardServices() patches need to be merged into any tree
> prior to this patch.

Ah, because of the broken prototypes again? 

You could just mark them all asmlinkage to force stack arguments.

Or just fix the prototypes.

-Andi
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