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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:09:42 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proxy_pda was Re: What was in the x86 merge for .20
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Looking at Arkadiusz' output file it looks like gcc 4.2 decided to CSE the
> address :/
>
> 	movl	$_proxy_pda+8, %edx	#, tmp65
>
> Very sad, but legitimate.
>   

Yes, that was my conclusion too.  Though in this case the code could be
cleaned up by cutting down on the number of uses of "current" - but
that's hardly a general fix.

> The only workaround I can think of would be to define it as a symbol
> (or away in vmlinux.lds.S)

Yes.  I was thinking about setting it in vmlinux.lds to some obviously
bad address so that any access will be highly visible.

> . Or do away with the idea of proxy_pda
> again.
>   

That would be very sad indeed.

    J
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