From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up stack access code in irq_32.c
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:13:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EF2BF2D8-F612-4812-AF96-05944AE0200C@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141012115332.5ec3db90@as>
That's not a justification for change. Claiming no harm is nevessary but not sufficient.
On October 12, 2014 9:53:32 AM PDT, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:47:53 -0700
>"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>[replying to the list this time, sigh]
>
>> We changed this to asm because the C broke some compilers. Why are
>you changing it back?
>>
>
>The C broke some compilers because it was using a global register
>variable. This is a local one, which the clang documentation says is
>supported. And I compiled it with clang with no problem.
>
>> On October 12, 2014 9:43:53 AM PDT, Chuck Ebbert
><cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Use C instead of asm for accessing the stack pointer. And define
>some
>> >macros to make the code easier to understand.
>> >
--
Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-12 16:43 Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-12 16:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-10-12 16:53 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-12 17:00 ` Jeff Epler
2014-10-12 17:40 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-12 17:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-10-12 19:34 ` Chuck Ebbert
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