linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label updates

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Message-Id: <20101027.141538.193709095.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:15:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbaron@...hat.com
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	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, andi@...stfloor.org,
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label updates

From: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:07:08 -0400

> So we finally tracked down the jump label crashes and it turned out that there
> was a a bug in the compiler in the implementation of 'asm goto'. As the fix has
> not yet been committed yet to gcc, and I don't have a simple test case to
> check if the bug has been fixed, we are going to disable jump labels pending
> a better test to detect that gcc has been fixed.
> 
> The second patch fixes a hang on Geode LX, b/c the no-op probing was done too
> early - before the exception tables had even been setup.

Please don't lose the sparc section alignment bug fix I posted recently.
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