Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753216AbXLEJbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbXLEJbq (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:31:46 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:48631 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849AbXLEJbp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:31:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:31:40 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jeff Dike Cc: Adrian Bunk , Harvey Harrison , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Unify include/asm-x86/linkage_[32|64].h Message-ID: <20071205093139.GJ15974@stusta.de> References: <1196801629.10408.26.camel@brick> <20071204213247.GA11216@elte.hu> <1196806868.10408.33.camel@brick> <20071204222717.GA25974@elte.hu> <20071204224543.GH15974@stusta.de> <1196809075.10408.42.camel@brick> <20071204231519.GI15974@stusta.de> <20071205001945.GB10763@c2.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071205001945.GB10763@c2.user-mode-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 30 On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:19:45PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > UML can't switch to the regparm(3) convention on i386 since it links > > with userspace code, so if assembler code uses this calling convention > > we need the C prototype of it annotated accordingly. > > We're not talking about a global calling convention switch, right? > We're talking about selected functions only, in which case, the fact > that UML links against libc is irrelevant. The non-UML i386 switched to globally using the regparm(3) calling convention in 2.6.20. > Jeff cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/