From: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@depni.sinp.msu.ru>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: x86_64: Remove unnecessary cast in prefetch()
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:40:26 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x78ig85.fsf@depni.sinp.msu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709070818.03995.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Fri\, 7 Sep 2007 08\:18\:03 +0100")
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
>> This can be fixed better by using gcc's __builtin_prefetch().
>
> I changed it to just use that. Thanks.
>
> It seems like gcc 3.1/3.2 already supported it and that's the earliest gcc
> still supported so it can be used unconditionally.
>
Hi!
Will you submit this patch for inclusion into 2.6.23? It is important
to make kernel work with GCC 4.3 and above. (Also note that gcc 4.2 already
smart enough to break that code, but kernel is just lucky currently).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 21:27 Serge Belyshev
2007-09-07 7:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-15 6:40 ` Serge Belyshev [this message]
2007-09-15 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-15 21:16 ` Serge Belyshev
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