From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Herbert Rosmanith <kernel@wildsau.enemy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl@lucon.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.31 & latest binutils: asm-problems still there
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:34:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050605233459.GB28759@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050605181632.GA19297@logos.cnet>
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:16:32PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:29:31AM +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
(...)
> > alessandro suardi told me that this problem is solved using the
> > patch from:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
> >
> > which are dated from march (2005-03-27) and therefore, about 3 months
> > old.
> >
> > it's about time this gets into the official kernel. who is in charge
> > of it? (it's obviously not sufficient to report to lkml).
>
> Looks OK except that one "movl" conversion was forgotten in
> the x86-64 diff:
>
> @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct t
> }
> {
> unsigned gsindex;
> - asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=g" (gsindex));
> + asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r" (gsindex));
> if (unlikely((gsindex | next->gsindex) || prev->gs)) {
>
> Who wrote the patch?
I believe it's H.J. Lu (CC'd).
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-05 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-04 3:29 Herbert Rosmanith
2005-06-05 18:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-05 23:34 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2005-06-05 23:49 ` H. J. Lu
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