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From: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: <bp@alien8.de>, <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>, <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	<mingo@redhat.com>, <hpa@zytor.com>, <acme@kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 10:09:51 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C010DF.8020902@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150803110335.GC26265@nazgul.tnic>

On 2015/08/03 20:03, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> For those of us suffering OCDs and all, its a good change though. The
>> alfabet song does go: A, B, C, D etc.. after all. Not: A, C, D, B ...
> 
> ... except that x86 encoding orders regs like it was originally: AX,
> CX, DX, BX, ... Don't ask me why - looks like someone thought that the
> C (count) and D (double precision - AX extension) registers were more
> important than B (base).
> 
> Or someone was simply illiterate.
> 

I thought this was typo. If it is intentional, I'll keep it intact.

Thanks,
Takao Indoh


      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-04  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-03  8:10 [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh
2015-08-03  9:03 ` Alexander Shishkin
2015-08-03  9:08   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-03  9:44     ` Alexander Shishkin
2015-08-04  1:02       ` Takao Indoh
2015-08-03 11:03     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-08-04  1:09       ` Takao Indoh [this message]

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