Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:52:21 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] LLVMLinux: Patches to enable the kernel to be compiled with clang/LLVM | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:39:55PM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:57:25AM +0100, behanw@converseincode.com wrote: >> >> From: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com> >> >> >> >> This patch set moves from using locally defined named registers to access the >> >> stack pointer to using a globally defined named register. This allows the code >> >> to work both with gcc and clang. >> >> >> >> The LLVMLinux project aims to fully build the Linux kernel using both gcc and >> >> clang (the C front end for the LLVM compiler infrastructure project). >> >> >> >> Behan Webster (4): >> >> arm64: LLVMLinux: Add current_stack_pointer() for arm64 >> >> arm64: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer in save_stack_trace_tsk >> >> arm64: LLVMLinux: Calculate current_thread_info from >> >> current_stack_pointer >> >> arm64: LLVMLinux: Use current_stack_pointer in kernel/traps.c >> > >> > Once Andreas's comments have been addressed: >> > >> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> >> > >> > Please can you send a new series after the merge window? >> >> Given that the ARM64 KVM guys are still actively breaking -next, and >> this is considerably smaller and lower risk than that, I think you can >> take it for 3.17? > > Hey, those breakages are in the kvm tree not the arm64 tree! I'd really > rather wait on these as I don't see the rush to get them in for 3.17 and > it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they could cause problems > for a particular version of GCC (at the very least, I'd need to re-run > all the testing I've been doing).
Yeah, it was somewhat tongue in cheek that made not have made it across the wire.
3.18 is fine with me too even though I find the concerns to be quite unlikely.
-Olof
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