Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760603AbYF0RM2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754725AbYF0RMT (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:19 -0400 Received: from saraswathi.solana.com ([198.99.130.12]:41794 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754688AbYF0RMS (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:26:45 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Benny Halevy Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix extern inline errors with gcc 4.3.0 Message-ID: <20080627162645.GC8381@c2.user-mode-linux.org> References: <1214488251-20927-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1214488251-20927-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@panasas.com> 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: 887 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:50:51PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote: > -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time,) > +# Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.3 compilers, it makes gcc use > +# a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots: > +# gcc 4.3.0 needs -funit-at-a-time for extern inline functions > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(call cc-version) -lt 0403 ] ; then \ > + echo $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time); fi ;) How do we know that this patch won't cause the same crash reported in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121011722806093&w=2? Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com -- 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/