The patch titled
Documentation: Remove references to FASTCALL/fastcall
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
remove-final-fastcall-users-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into remove-final-fastcall-users.patch
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: Documentation: Remove references to FASTCALL/fastcall
From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
An example function prototype and description of options that
modify how arguments are passed had references to fastcall.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/kprobes.txt | 11 +++++------
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt~remove-final-fastcall-users-fix Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
--- a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt~remove-final-fastcall-users-fix
+++ a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ the NMI handler to take the default mach
This nmi_callback variable is a global function pointer to the current
NMI handler.
- fastcall void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
+ void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
{
int cpu;
diff -puN Documentation/kprobes.txt~remove-final-fastcall-users-fix Documentation/kprobes.txt
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt~remove-final-fastcall-users-fix
+++ a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -92,9 +92,8 @@ handler has run. Up to MAX_STACK_SIZE b
64 bytes on i386.
Note that the probed function's args may be passed on the stack
-or in registers (e.g., for x86_64 or for an i386 fastcall function).
-The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the handler's
-prototype matches that of the probed function.
+or in registers. The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the
+handler's prototype matches that of the probed function.
1.3 Return Probes
@@ -270,9 +269,9 @@ Kprobes runs the handler whose address i
The handler should have the same arg list and return type as the probed
function; and just before it returns, it must call jprobe_return().
(The handler never actually returns, since jprobe_return() returns
-control to Kprobes.) If the probed function is declared asmlinkage,
-fastcall, or anything else that affects how args are passed, the
-handler's declaration must match.
+control to Kprobes.) If the probed function is declared asmlinkage
+or anything else that affects how args are passed, the handler's
+declaration must match.
register_jprobe() returns 0 on success, or a negative errno otherwise.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
include-linux-remove-all-users-of-fastcall-macro.patch
rcupdate-fix-comment.patch
remove-final-fastcall-users.patch
remove-final-fastcall-users-fix.patch
final-removal-of-fastcall-fastcall.patch
git-x86.patch
x86-remove-pt_regs-arg-from-smp_thermal_interrupt.patch
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