On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> I finally tracked the problem down to a dirty trick used to prevent
> do_test_wp_bit() from being inlined (Axel, you identified the right
> file). Unfortunately, this trick does not work anymore when gcc-4.x
> is used without -fno-unit-at-a-time, so let's use the correct method
> instead.
>
>
> -/* Put this after the callers, so that it cannot be inlined */
> -static int do_test_wp_bit(unsigned long vaddr)
Ick, that was horrible indeed!
> I really hope that this trick is not used anywhere else!
Me too ... funnily enough, 2.6.23-rc5 still has that wrong comment in it!
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