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authorHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>2008-02-14 02:03:16 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-14 03:21:18 +0300
commitb5606c2d4447e80b1d72406af4e78af1eda611d4 (patch)
treeebdaa1a0aae4279b84af82651c16a8777f76bfe4 /Documentation
parentfbf6bfca76d50abef478ba902b8597ecbadfd390 (diff)
downloadlinux-b5606c2d4447e80b1d72406af4e78af1eda611d4.tar.xz
remove final fastcall users
fastcall always expands to empty, remove it. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kprobes.txt11
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
index d0634a5c3445..c64158ecde43 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ the NMI handler to take the default machine-specific action.
This nmi_callback variable is a global function pointer to the current
NMI handler.
- fastcall void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
+ void do_nmi(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
{
int cpu;
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index 30c101761d0d..83f515c2905a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -92,9 +92,8 @@ handler has run. Up to MAX_STACK_SIZE bytes are copied -- e.g.,
64 bytes on i386.
Note that the probed function's args may be passed on the stack
-or in registers (e.g., for x86_64 or for an i386 fastcall function).
-The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the handler's
-prototype matches that of the probed function.
+or in registers. The jprobe will work in either case, so long as the
+handler's prototype matches that of the probed function.
1.3 Return Probes
@@ -270,9 +269,9 @@ Kprobes runs the handler whose address is jp->entry.
The handler should have the same arg list and return type as the probed
function; and just before it returns, it must call jprobe_return().
(The handler never actually returns, since jprobe_return() returns
-control to Kprobes.) If the probed function is declared asmlinkage,
-fastcall, or anything else that affects how args are passed, the
-handler's declaration must match.
+control to Kprobes.) If the probed function is declared asmlinkage
+or anything else that affects how args are passed, the handler's
+declaration must match.
register_jprobe() returns 0 on success, or a negative errno otherwise.