Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752139AbXBEI1T (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:27:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752142AbXBEI1T (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:27:19 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42203 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752139AbXBEI1S (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:27:18 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:26:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: =?iso-8859-15?q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Riss?= , Andrew Morton , Matt Domsch , Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Eric Van Hensbergen , Trond Myklebust , Neil Brown , Stephen Hemminger , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeff Garzik , "Eric W. Biederman" , Francois Romieu References: <1170594788.5217.4.camel@funkylaptop> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702050926.51007.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 22 On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Fr?d?ric Riss wrote: > > > > New patch: > > I didn't get how this would fix the ia64 issues? I thought ia64 needed > the standard calling convention? asmlinkage is standard enough on ia64 as far as I can see. It defines to an undocumented attribute that seems to only affect the generated code for functions (basically it forces the compiler to not reuse input arguments, similar to prevent_tail_call() on i386), not for pointers. -Andi - 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/