* Chris Wright [off-list ref] wrote:
Current -rt is broken when compiling with CONFIG_PARAVIRT and
CONFIG_MCOUNT both enabled. Because CONFIG_MCOUNT disables
CONFIG_REGPARM, the calling convention must once again be explicit
with fastcall. However, this was only half-way addressed in the -rt
patch (adding fastcall back to paravirt_ops function ptr declaration
but not the actual function definitions) so the compiled kernel has
caller putting stuff in registers and callee pulling things from the
stack. Impressive how far into boot it can get despite that ;-) Thanks
to Steven Rostedt for prodding me and starting the initial debugging.
thanks! I ran into this before and asked for the fastcalls to not be
removed from upstream paravirt.c but to no avail it seems. It does no
harm to anyone to keep the 'fastcall' declarations and definitions for
places where _actual assembly code_ depends on the calling convention.
Could someone please send this upstream-wards too?
Ingo