Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 18:45:56 EST


On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> >> knew what this code was doing. Can you give a brief explanation of
> >> the ikd additions in this area?
> >
> >thats a workaround i added ages ago - we switch off the FASTCALL macro
>
> The part of code quoted above is been implemented from scratch by me
> though. At the time you wrote the code do_signal wasn't using regparm ;).

(sorry you are probably right. Nevertheless Michael Galbraith and me
debugged the problem initially and switched off regparm in ktrace &
friends. I definitly remember having hacked entry.S too for the above
reasons - maybe i never released it and you implemented it independently.)

-- mingo

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