Someone else was doing this awhile back, and also had issues. Their trouble seemed to be related to xscale gcc miscompiling parts of XFS - search the linux-xfs archives for details. cheers. -- Nathan
2005/7/8, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>: I found patch by Greg Ungreger to fix this problem, but why it's still not in mainline? Or it's a gcc problem and should be fixed by gcc folks? BTW, my kerne
Yes, IIRC the patch was incorrect for other platforms, and it sure looked like an arm-specific gcc problem (this was ages back, so perhaps its fixed by now). cheers. -- Nathan
2005/7/14, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>: AFAIR gcc-3.4.3 was released after this conversation take place at linux-xfs, maybe add something like this: /* We need this because some gcc versions for x
no, just fix your compiler or let the gcc folks do it. Did anyone of the arm folks ever open a PR at the gcc bugzilla with a reproduced testcase? You're never get your compiler fixed with that attitu
2005/7/14, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Yes, but a lof of people use older versions of compilers and suffer from this bug. I personally was very unhappy when lost my data. Best regards, Yur
Someone else was doing this awhile back, and also had issues. Their trouble seemed to be related to xscale gcc miscompiling parts of XFS - search the linux-xfs archives for details. cheers. -- Nathan
2005/7/8, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>: I found patch by Greg Ungreger to fix this problem, but why it's still not in mainline? Or it's a gcc problem and should be fixed by gcc folks? BTW, my kerne
Yes, IIRC the patch was incorrect for other platforms, and it sure looked like an arm-specific gcc problem (this was ages back, so perhaps its fixed by now). cheers. -- Nathan
2005/7/14, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>: AFAIR gcc-3.4.3 was released after this conversation take place at linux-xfs, maybe add something like this: /* We need this because some gcc versions for x
no, just fix your compiler or let the gcc folks do it. Did anyone of the arm folks ever open a PR at the gcc bugzilla with a reproduced testcase? You're never get your compiler fixed with that attitu
2005/7/14, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Yes, but a lof of people use older versions of compilers and suffer from this bug. I personally was very unhappy when lost my data. Best regards, Yur