On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:49:43PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> This removes the two fixmes in the file, init.c for compiler hints
> for comments related to compiler hints in linux_gateway_page_addr
> and map_hpux_gateway_page to change from FIXME to HINT in order
> for people reading this code to understand that these are compiler
> hints.
>
"* const" tells the compiler that a pointer is a constant.
It doesn't tell the compiler that the data shall not be treated
as DP-relative.
FIXME as in: We should find a better way to tell the compiler to
not treat this data as DP-relative.
Can you please stop this ?
Guenter
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <yoc...@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/parisc/mm/init.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
> index 0bef864..668102e 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
> @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ static void __init pagetable_init(void)
> static void __init gateway_init(void)
> {
> unsigned long linux_gateway_page_addr;
> - /* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> + /* HINT: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> into not treating it as DP-relative data. */
> extern void * const linux_gateway_page;
>
> @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ map_hpux_gateway_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct
> mm_struct *mm)
> unsigned long start_pte;
> unsigned long address;
> unsigned long hpux_gw_page_addr;
> - /* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> + /* HINT: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> into not treating it as DP-relative data. */
> extern void * const hpux_gateway_page;
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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