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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:25:05 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark early_printk as asmlinkage * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: >> I'd call asmlinkage kind of documentation, then. Not everyone is as >> good with x86 abi as you are... > > Since it's already only used on x86-32 and we no longer support > non-regparm x86, I'd like to at least get to the point where x86-32 > doesn't have any function. We can retain it for documentation's sake, > but even then it's iffy... is "this is callable from assembly" really > something arch-invariant. the kernel still works if we disable regparm, and it makes sense to just have a good list of all functions that are called from assembly. But it's not just about non-regparm or documentation, we have regular trouble with over-eager gcc optimizations that assume that all code is generated by gcc ... Furthermore, code flow is easier to understand if we know what is called from assembly and what not. So documenting all these places makes sense to me and we've applied similar patches in the past. Ingo -- 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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