linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/3] Documentation: Remove references to FASTCALL/fastcall

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:45:00 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/3] Documentation: Remove references to FASTCALL/fastcall

An example function prototype and description of options that
modify how arguments are passed had references to fastcall.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
---
Andrew, I don't have the knowledge to deal with the rcupdate.c
wrapper function, hopefully Paul will be able to have a look.

Also, the UML reference is to a config option UM_FASTCALL, not
the FASTCALL macro.

 Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/kprobes.txt     |   11 +++++------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
index d0634a5..c64158e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ the NMI handler to take the default machine-specific action.
 This nmi_callback variable is a global function pointer to the current
 NMI handler.
 
-	fastcall void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
+	void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
 	{
 		int cpu;
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index 30c1017..83f515c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -92,9 +92,8 @@ handler has run.  Up to MAX_STACK_SIZE bytes are copied -- e.g.,
 64 bytes on i386.
 
 Note that the probed function's args may be passed on the stack
-or in registers (e.g., for x86_64 or for an i386 fastcall function).
-The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the handler's
-prototype matches that of the probed function.
+or in registers.  The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the
+handler's prototype matches that of the probed function.
 
 1.3 Return Probes
 
@@ -270,9 +269,9 @@ Kprobes runs the handler whose address is jp->entry.
 The handler should have the same arg list and return type as the probed
 function; and just before it returns, it must call jprobe_return().
 (The handler never actually returns, since jprobe_return() returns
-control to Kprobes.)  If the probed function is declared asmlinkage,
-fastcall, or anything else that affects how args are passed, the
-handler's declaration must match.
+control to Kprobes.)  If the probed function is declared asmlinkage
+or anything else that affects how args are passed, the handler's
+declaration must match.
 
 register_jprobe() returns 0 on success, or a negative errno otherwise.
 
-- 
1.5.4.1219.g65b9



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