[Cbe-oss-dev] GCC inline memcpy() from local store causes bad page fault

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 22 22:59:02 EST 2007


> But we already have -mstring in arch/powerpc/Makefile
>
> ifndef CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE
> CFLAGS          += -mstring
> endif
>
> So should we delete these lines completely and force -mno-string 
> option?

They should be deleted, yes.

There is no reason to force -mno-string though -- you only
need it on the few pieces of code that access cache-inhibited
memory as normal memory, and then only on certain CPUs.


Segher




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