Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262752AbVAQJyS (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:54:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262754AbVAQJyS (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:54:18 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:19469 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262752AbVAQJyO (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:54:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Tigran Aivazian Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Hubicka , Jack F Vogel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: <20050114205651.GE17263@kam.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:53:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1105955608.6304.60.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 4.1 (++++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on canuck.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 22 On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:30 +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I cc'd Linus as I cannot believe he agreed with allowing such an > optimization to be a default and standard thing accepted by the Linux > kernel. (But I may be wrong, especially since Linus isn't particularly > fond of kdb anyway :) I don't see a problem, have you ever seen ia64?? > Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I > say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't > believe that such fine piece of software as gdb would be broken as well. > And to my surprize I discovered that gdb (when a program is compiled with > -g) works fine! I.e. it shows the function arguments correctly. And so why don't you use kgdb instead of kdb ? - 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/