Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play welltogether

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:06 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> Current -rt is broken when compiling with CONFIG_PARAVIRT and
> CONFIG_MCOUNT both enabled.  Because CONFIG_MCOUNT disables
> CONFIG_REGPARM, the calling convention must once again be explicit
> with fastcall.  However, this was only half-way addressed in the -rt
> patch (adding fastcall back to paravirt_ops function ptr declaration but
> not the actual function definitions) so the compiled kernel has caller
> putting stuff in registers and callee pulling things from the stack.
> Impressive how far into boot it can get despite that ;-)  Thanks to
> Steven Rostedt for prodding me and starting the initial debugging.

Chris, thanks a hell of a lot for looking into this!!!

-rt doesn't do much with paravirt, but since both -rt and lguest are two
things I love to play with, it was really bothering me that they were
not getting along.

Much appreciated!

-- Steve


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