kernel_optimize_test/arch
Roland McGrath 54a0151041 asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler
clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions
is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs.  The tail/sibling-call
optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use
stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent.
Other optimizations can do it too.

Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the
compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all
the manifestations of this issue that crop up.

More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument
variables live at the end of the function.  This makes their original
stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler
tends not clobber them for something else.  It's still no guarantee, but
it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
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alpha alpha: fix ALSA DMA mmap crash 2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
arm [ARM] 4873/1: Fix ITE 8152 interrupt demux 2008-03-28 15:07:46 +00:00
avr32 avr32: Fix bug in early resource allocation code 2008-03-27 15:31:57 +01:00
blackfin [Blackfin] arch: fix atomic and32/xor32 comments and ENDPROC markings 2008-03-03 17:44:14 -07:00
cris cris: correct usage of __user for copy to and from user space in lib/usercopy and uaccess.h 2008-03-04 16:35:16 -08:00
frv FRV: Make NOMMU-mode work with base addresses other than 0xC0000000 [try #2] 2008-04-10 13:41:29 -07:00
h8300 h8300: defconfig update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] kprobes arch consolidation build fix 2008-03-06 09:49:01 -08:00
m32r ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68k m68k: update defconfigs for 2.6.25 2008-04-04 14:42:30 -07:00
m68knommu m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new timerfd syscalls 2008-03-04 08:04:11 -08:00
mips [MIPS] Handle aliases in vmalloc correctly. 2008-04-07 22:31:04 +01:00
mn10300 MN10300: define HZ as a config option 2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
parisc [PARISC] head.S: section mismatch fixes 2008-03-15 19:12:22 -07:00
powerpc [POWERPC] Fix MPC5200 (not B!) device tree so FEC ethernet works 2008-04-03 22:11:12 +11:00
ppc [PPC] 8xx: swap bug-fix 2008-03-07 16:56:54 -06:00
s390 [S390] futex: let futex_atomic_cmpxchg_pt survive early functional tests. 2008-03-20 17:33:46 +01:00
sh sh: Fix up uImage compression type 2008-03-31 16:17:11 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-03-17 23:44:31 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix user accesses in regset code. 2008-04-03 16:55:14 -07:00
um [UML]: uml-net: don't set IFF_ALLMULTI in set_multicast_list 2008-03-26 00:16:29 -07:00
v850 ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
x86 asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call 2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
xtensa [XTENSA] Allow debugger to modify the WINDOWBASE register. 2008-02-13 17:45:36 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in Kconfig 2008-03-04 16:35:11 -08:00