On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM, David Miller<[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:28:53 -0400
>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM, David Miller<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> From: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:45:39 -0400
>>>
>>>> Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> This breaks 32-bit sparc.
>>>
>>> It will cause the binaries built to be tagged as needing v8plus or v9
>>> instructions.  They therefore won't execute or load on a 32-bit sparc
>>> system.
>>>
>>> That's why I encoded the membars using explicit instruction constants,
>>> rather than using the usual mnemonics.
>>
>> Surely gcc defines a macro we can check for? Something like __sparcv9
>> or __arch64__? What is preferred?
>
> The correct test is something like:
>
> #if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)
>

Please review the attached patch. Thanks for the input.

Matt

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