From 36a8c51ca349762aca1a98b31b5993503d1ef7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:59:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 22983 b: refs/heads/master c:
 b824eb605ccba995fd32c6590aed365f93d48002 h: refs/heads/master i:   22981:
 fcfaccbf4c79ffbff23a1c35c173d74b3816738e   22979:
 2246dc5fcc6c7d62f606d52c3f1840e746b753a8   22975:
 ba9f6bd842744ea9b74a31b99bfeb2c446c63658 v: v3

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 [refs]                  |  2 +-
 trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index af80484b1c59..e5667610cd25 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 69ef4141e03fab1c6956d3c760584c72b548a26f
+refs/heads/master: b824eb605ccba995fd32c6590aed365f93d48002
diff --git a/trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig b/trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 69c8a70e854b..5f89c74537ef 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -661,9 +661,17 @@ config BOOT_IOREMAP
 
 config REGPARM
 	bool "Use register arguments"
+	default y
 	help
-	Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This uses a different ABI
-	and passes the first three arguments of a function call in registers.
+	Compile the kernel with -mregparm=3. This instructs gcc to use
+	a more efficient function call ABI which passes the first three
+	arguments of a function call via registers, which results in denser
+	and faster code.
+
+	If this option is disabled, then the default ABI of passing
+	arguments via the stack is used.
+
+	If unsure, say Y.
 
 config SECCOMP
 	bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"