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

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:26:44 -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: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Final removal of FASTCALL()/fastcall

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I added that as a note in my patch to look into and ended up
forgetting about it.

The original comment that was there read:
/* Because of FASTCALL declaration of complete, we use this wrapper */

Sorry about that, I'll look into the last occurances and send you a
patch 4/3.

Harvey

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