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[PATCH] uml: workaround host bug in "TT mode vs. NPTL link fix"
authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:33:36 +0000 (00:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:00:24 +0000 (09:00 -0700)
commit1feb8d2d7396748fb3bd6795d09bbfbdd4c03dff
tree73d7dbb979a107859fb40730555cb10ca6b4cbbb
parentbcb01b8a67476e6f748086e626df8424cc27036d
[PATCH] uml: workaround host bug in "TT mode vs. NPTL link fix"

A big bug has been diagnosed on hosts running the SKAS patch and built with
CONFIG_REGPARM, due to some missing prevent_tail_call().

On these hosts, this workaround is needed to avoid triggering that bug,
because "to" is kept by GCC only in EBX, which is corrupted at the return of
mmap2().

Since to trigger this bug int 0x80 must be used when doing the call, it rarely
manifests itself, so I'd prefer to get this merged to workaround that host
bug, since it should cause no functional change.  Still, you might prefer to
drop it, I'll leave this to you.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/um/sys-i386/unmap.c
arch/um/sys-x86_64/unmap.c