From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263161AbUJ2SDI (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:03:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263438AbUJ2R77 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:59:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:12989 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263337AbUJ2R5Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:57:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:57:05 -0700 From: Richard Henderson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-os@analogic.com, Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Jan Hubicka Subject: Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug Message-ID: <20041029175705.GC25764@redhat.com> References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> <20041020034524.GD10638@michonline.com> <1098245904.23628.84.camel@krustophenia.net> <1098247307.23628.91.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:46:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, this is another case where we _really_ want "asmlinkage" to mean that > the compiler does not own the argument stack. Is there any chance of > getting a function attribute like that into future versions of gcc? Certainly we'd accept the feature, it's just a matter of doing the work. r~