Re: post 2.6.7 BK change breaks Java?

[Matthias Andree]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Brian Gerst wrote:

[a hell of a quote that got snipped]

> >gcc 3.4.0
> >
> >I got a patch from Linus yesterday that seems to fix it nicely on top of
> >2.6.8-rc1. I guess he has his reasons for not CC'ing it to the list, but
> >I've given him feedback on my testing of it, so I hope it'll surface as
> >soon as he's happy with it.
> 
> I see Linus commited a changeset that avoids a tailcall from this 
> function, which messes up the stack if CONFIG_REGPARM=n.  Specifically, 
> it clobbers %edx in the pt_regs image:
> 
> sys_sigaltstack:
>         movl    56(%esp), %eax
>         movl    %eax, 12(%esp)
>         jmp     do_sigaltstack

After a BK pull and a rebuild, Java is well again.

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Matthias Andree

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