Re: [PATCH 3/3] Final removal of FASTCALL()/fastcall

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 16:26:56 EST


On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:42 -0800
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > All users are gone, remove definitions and comments referring
> > to them.
>
> I'm still showing occurrences in:
>
> ./Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
> ./Documentation/kprobes.txt
> ./Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt
> ./kernel/rcupdate.c
>
> The last one is interesting:
>
> /* FASTCALL no longer exists, this wrapper may no longer be needed */
> static void wakeme_after_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> {
> struct rcu_synchronize *rcu;
>
> rcu = container_of(head, struct rcu_synchronize, head);
> complete(&rcu->completion);
> }
>
> The comment is rather ungrammatical/meaningless. Perhaps it is trying
> to tell us that we can remove this function now?

Sorry, I added that as a note in my patch to look into and ended up
forgetting about it.

The original comment that was there read:
/* Because of FASTCALL declaration of complete, we use this wrapper */

Sorry about that, I'll look into the last occurances and send you a
patch 4/3.

Harvey

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