Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 23:27:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Unify include/asm-x86/linkage_[32|64].h
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* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:32 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not sure if the definition of asmlinkage and prevent_tail_call can 
> > > be omitted as well and let the linux/linkage.h version get picked up 
> > > instead.
> > 
> > no, we cannot remove them - asmlinkage is needed for the syscall 
> > entry (and other entry code) to work, the and the prevent_tail_call 
> > works around a compiler bug. (which might or might not be fixed in 
> > latest gcc - but we generally dont remove workarounds unless we are 
> > really sure it's fine.)
> 
> OK, but if this patch is acceptable, then there is no more places in 
> the tree that define the FASTCALL macro, other than the empty default 
> in include/linux/linkage.h.  So I think a second step would be to 
> start to get rid of FASTCALL callers elsewhere in the tree...thoughts?

the removal of FASTCALL is fine: the default (and only) compiler model 
for x86 (32-bit) is regparm(3), so the regparm(3) macro is equivalent to 
the empty one in linux/linkage.h.

btw., removal of FASTCALL from the tree is worthwile after this: it 
should probably be done via the -mm tree, because it's more of a generic 
kernel matter than an arch/x86 matter.

	Ingo
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