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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>,
	Jim Grosbach <grosbach@apple.com>,
	Stephen Checkoway <s@pahtak.org>, LLVMdev <llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:40:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E44234.5060300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E2FACA.3050801@goop.org>

On 07/14/2013 12:23 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The SDM entry for BT mentions that the instruction may touch 2 or 4
> bytes depending on the operand size, but doesn't specifically mention
> that a 64 bit operation size touches 8 bytes - and it doesn't mention
> anything at all about operand size and access size in BTR/BTS/BTC
> (unless it's implied as part of the discussion about encoding the MSBs
> of a constant bit offset in the offset of the addressing mode). Is that
> an oversight?

Most likely.  I'll check with the people responsible for the SDM here at
Intel.

	-hpa



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-14 12:56 [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 18:26   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 18:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 18:49       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-14 18:35   ` [LLVMdev] " Tim Northover
2013-07-14 19:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 19:30       ` Tim Northover
2013-07-14 19:41         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 19:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:40           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 19:00               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 19:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-14 19:23   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 19:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:40     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-14 19:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-07-14 21:14   ` Andi Kleen
2013-07-15 18:42     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:47   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 18:58     ` Linus Torvalds

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