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

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Message-ID: <1288229620.18238.131.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:33:40 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jbaron@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, andi@...stfloor.org,
	roland@...hat.com, rth@...hat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, avi@...hat.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	sam@...nborg.org, tony@...eyournoodle.com,
	ddaney@...iumnetworks.com, dsd@...top.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label updates

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

I wont, I'm currently busy doing my RH job ;-) I'll have it already
queued up, and will post later tonight.

-- Steve


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