linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] ftrace: handle generic arch calls

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810291622050.18694@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:23:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] ftrace: handle generic arch calls


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > Since x86 is the ambiguous case, I made it the one that would be converted 
> > > to i386 or x86_64 since those could be passed in directly.
> > The trick is usually to replace use of ARCH with SRCARCH.
> 
> That won't help - what he wants to know is whether he's on 32bit or
> on 64bit.

I will still get the "bits" parameter. The issue that we are talking about 
here is that I have this ugly if statement that deals with the fact that 
we can get "x86", "x86_64" or "i386" passed in as the ARCH. I'm guessing 
if we switch ARCH to SRCARCH then we can just test against x86 and bits?

-- Steve
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