Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug

[Andi Kleen]

> Btw, this is another case where we _really_ want "asmlinkage" to mean that
> the compiler does not own the argument stack. Is there any chance of
> getting a function attribute like that into future versions of gcc?  
> Richard, Jan, Andi? Or does it already exist somewhere?

How about just using __attribute__((regparm(1)))  ?  Then the
problem doesn't appear. 
Would be faster too. It should work reliable on all supported compilers.

-Andi

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