linux-kernel - fastcalls, was Re: [patch] generic rwsems

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:19:30 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: fastcalls, was Re: [patch] generic rwsems

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:04:16PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Remove one level of indirection (kernel/rwsem.c -> lib/rwsem.c), and
> give a bit of a cleanup (eg remove the fastcall junk) to make the
> code a bit easier to read.

Arpopos fastcalls, now that -mregparam=3 is the defaul on i386 and
FASTCALL/fastcall is a noop everywhere else can we please get rid
of this attribute entirely?  If any other architecture provides
a more optimal non-standard calling convention we can just use
it by default in kernelspace as a few architectures already do.
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