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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use gcc alias instead of assembler aliases for syscalls
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:39:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130808043906.GB23412@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130807165421.0b60ee9acbd1571426188448@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:54:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon,  5 Aug 2013 15:09:35 -0700 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Use standard gcc __attribute__((alias(foo))) to define
> > the syscall aliases instead of custom assembler macros.
> > 
> > This is far cleaner, and also fixes my LTO kernel build.
> > 
> 
> This makes my x86_64 allmodconfig build emit screenfuls of

Ok I can reproduce with MODVERSIONS. Very mysterious, as I 
didn't change EXPORT_SYMBOL. Will look into it.

Thanks.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05 22:09 Andi Kleen
2013-08-06  5:59 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-06  6:42   ` Andi Kleen
2013-08-06  7:40     ` Al Viro
2013-08-07 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-08  4:39   ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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