Re: [PATCH 134/148] include/asm-x86/uaccess_64.h: checkpatchcleanups - formatting only

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 16:17:40 EST



* Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > hm, you apparently never built this on 64-bit x86?
>
> Correct. x86(_32) defconfig and allyesconfig only.
>
> > The above has a trivial typo.
>
> Careless.
> I'll set up an x86-64 cross-compiler.

yeah - 64-bit allyesconfig (with DEBUG_INFO disabled - it just slows
down the build) should trigger most of the problems.

nevertheless i have most of your other patches in x86.git/latest right
now, you can pick it up via:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README

> Before building I did
> s/__LINE__/0/g
> to minimize the md5sum differences
>
> and md5sum/diff and objdump -Dx/diff and inspected
> the objects before and after.

that's a nice trick - i never figured out a good way to skip such type
of build differences.

Ingo
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