From: Thomas Reitmayr <treitmayr@devbase.at>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
leigh123linux@googlemail.com, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use correct byte-sized register constraint in __xchg_op()
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:16:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333660563.8861.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA50Bz2BtDw77yBvQpc9BxGZqyp0_4JeZUY-E_QB0mFZsA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Josh,
You are right, this bug also affects 3.3 and IMO should be fixed there,
too!
-Thomas
Am Donnerstag, den 05.04.2012, 16:27 -0400 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> >> x86-64 can access the low half of any register, but i386 can only do
> >> it with a subset of registers. 'r' causes compilation failures on i386,
> >> but 'q' expresses the constraint properly.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> >> Reported-by: Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@googlemail.com>
> >> Tested-by: Thomas Reitmayr <treitmayr@devbase.at>
> >
> > This should be CC'd to stable, given the bug shows up in 3.3, right?
>
> Er.. this patch seems to have been lost in limbo. Is anyone following
> up on it?
>
> josh
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-05 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-02 23:15 [PATCH] Use correct byte-sized register constraint in __xchg_op() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-04-04 0:37 ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-05 20:27 ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-05 21:16 ` Thomas Reitmayr [this message]
2012-04-06 7:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-04-06 16:52 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: " tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-04-06 16:53 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Use correct byte-sized register constraint in __add() tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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