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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:30:36 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> To: Nicholas Krause <yocto6@...il.com> Cc: jejb@...isc-linux.org, deller@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...e.de, julia.lawall@...6.fr, himangi774@...il.com, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc:Remove unnecessary FIXMES in init.c On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:49:43PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote: > This removes the two fixmes in the file, init.c for compiler hints > for comments related to compiler hints in linux_gateway_page_addr > and map_hpux_gateway_page to change from FIXME to HINT in order > for people reading this code to understand that these are compiler > hints. > "* const" tells the compiler that a pointer is a constant. It doesn't tell the compiler that the data shall not be treated as DP-relative. FIXME as in: We should find a better way to tell the compiler to not treat this data as DP-relative. Can you please stop this ? Guenter > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <yocto6@...il.com> > --- > arch/parisc/mm/init.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c > index 0bef864..668102e 100644 > --- a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c > +++ b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c > @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ static void __init pagetable_init(void) > static void __init gateway_init(void) > { > unsigned long linux_gateway_page_addr; > - /* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler > + /* HINT: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler > into not treating it as DP-relative data. */ > extern void * const linux_gateway_page; > > @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ map_hpux_gateway_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) > unsigned long start_pte; > unsigned long address; > unsigned long hpux_gw_page_addr; > - /* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler > + /* HINT: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler > into not treating it as DP-relative data. */ > extern void * const hpux_gateway_page; > > -- > 1.9.1 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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