Re: [GIT PULL] Correct the SMAP check in the e820 probe

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Hmm. If I read this correctly, I don't think this can be right.
> 
> Why? You don't mark %edx as possibly corrupted by the asm any more.
> 
> The "=dm" means that quite often (probably effectively always), gcc will 
> allocate %edx to be the output register for %0, but at least in theory, it 
> could easily decide that it's going to put %0 in memory, and in that case, 
> it may well decide that %edx is not modified by the asm statement. Which 
> may or may not be true - I'd bet that there are BIOSes out there that *do* 
> modify it.
> 

Yes indeed.

> 
> IOW, I think you need to either (a) _force_ gcc to use %edx for the "err" 
> return, avoiding this issue, or (b) mark edx clobbered (which in turn 
> means that you need to remove it from the output constraint for "err"). I 
> suspect (a) is simpler/more straightforward.
> 
> I haven't pulled this, so maybe you can just amend the commit in-place, 
> and we can avoid?
> 

Will do.

	-hpa