* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Chris Wright wrote: > > Yes, paravirt ops have a well-specified calling convention (register > > based). There was a cleanup that Andi did that caused the problem > > because it removed all the "fastcall" annotations since -mregparm=3 > > is now always on for i386. Since MCOUNT disables REGPARM the calling > > convention changes (caller pushes to stack, callee expects register) > > chaos ensues. I sent a patch to fix that quite some months back, but > > it went stale and I neglected to update it. Would you like me to dig > > it up refresh and resend? > > Chris, thanks for the refresher. > > I'm going to see if we can remove the REGPARM hack and change the way > mcount does its calls. Maybe this will fix things for us.
I don't recall why mcount disables regparm, but I think you're on the right path to remove that dependency. thanks, -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
