linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] Final removal of FASTCALL()/fastcall

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:17:38 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Final removal of FASTCALL()/fastcall

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:42 -0800
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:

> All users are gone, remove definitions and comments referring
> to them.

I'm still showing occurrences in:

./Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
./Documentation/kprobes.txt
./Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
./kernel/rcupdate.c

The last one is interesting:

/* FASTCALL no longer exists, this wrapper may no longer be needed */
static void wakeme_after_rcu(struct rcu_head  *head)
{
        struct rcu_synchronize *rcu;

        rcu = container_of(head, struct rcu_synchronize, head);
        complete(&rcu->completion);
}

The comment is rather ungrammatical/meaningless.  Perhaps it is trying
to tell us that we can remove this function now?
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