Re: 2.4.31 & latest binutils: asm-problems still there

[Willy Tarreau]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:16:32PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:29:31AM +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
(...)
> > alessandro suardi told me that this problem is solved using the
> > patch from:
> >   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
> > 
> > which are dated from march (2005-03-27) and therefore, about 3 months
> > old.
> > 
> > it's about time this gets into the official kernel. who is in charge
> > of it? (it's obviously not sufficient to report to lkml).
> 
> Looks OK except that one "movl" conversion was forgotten in 
> the x86-64 diff:
> 
> @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct t
>  	}
>  	{
>  		unsigned gsindex;
> -		asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=g" (gsindex)); 
> +		asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r" (gsindex)); 
>  		if (unlikely((gsindex | next->gsindex) || prev->gs)) {
> 
> Who wrote the patch? 

I believe it's H.J. Lu (CC'd).

Willy

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