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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: flushrs and the backing store
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:22:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16543.51298.744463.19937@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040510175934.51397.qmail@web60008.mail.yahoo.com>

>>>>> On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:59:34 -0700 (PDT), umut aymakoglu <umutaymak@yahoo.com> said:

  Umut> Hi - Is there some kind of documentation that talks about what
  Umut> registers are saved in the backing store up to the current
  Umut> procedure after flushrs instruction and their
  Umut> layout/structure?

Sure, the ASDM [1] does.  As does my book (with better figures,
IMHO... ;-) But really, it's quite simple: flushrs writes back all
stacked registers in the dirty partition.  The backing store format
consists of naturally-aligned 64-word blocks (512 bytes), with the
first 63 words use to store register values and the 64-th word use to
store the NaT bits of the first 63 words.

	--david

[1] http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/iiasdmanual.htm

      reply	other threads:[~2004-05-10 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-10 17:59 flushrs and the backing store umut aymakoglu
2004-05-10 18:22 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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