Re: Bug#234976: kernel-source-2.6.4: Software Suspend doesn't work

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> ged, anyway...
> 
> Could do. And on the top of merging, sorry for the delays I'm getting  
> there. I figured out yesterday what was holding me back with getting SMP &  
> HighMem going under 2.6. It was really simple: the compile was using -O2.  
> A quick change to the Makefile and I can now use a C file as I do with 2.4.

Which, as I keep saying, is plain broken ... You simply cannot control
what side effects the compiler will generate, like touching the stack,
etc... Such a critical routine _has_ to be written in assembly (and
properly commented of course). Anything else is asking for trouble.

Ben.

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