On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Saravana Kannan wrote: > On 03/01/2011 02:37 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Perhaps a more robust fix would be to remove the register int > > declarations and handle the parameter marshalling in the same asm block > > that contains the smc? > > I was thinking the same, but the opposing idea I heard was that not doing it > inside the asm block would allow GCC to be make better use of the registers. Indeed. And a significant body of code out there does rely on this gcc feature, so it has to minimally work. > Didn't have a strong opinion either way, so we went with the implementation > that was sent out. ACK. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
