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From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix msr register allocation
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:35:57 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185813358.4347.24.camel@t60> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070730153734.GA6921@atjola.homenet>

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 17:37 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2007.07.30 12:25:54 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> > Since the value in ret will go through a return statement,
>                      ^^^
> You mean "err" I guess?
Yeah, you're right.

> Note that the EAX output constraint is re-used in the input section for
> (u32)val, i.e. the lower half of the value to be written. And "wrmsr"
> needs that in EAX, so you cannot change the output constraint without
> touching the input constraint.
Right again. Will send a new patch that also changes the input constraint.

> Also, I do not see how the compiler could do any better than having the
> return value already in EAX, but that doesn't really mean anything ;-)

Yet, we should only force the compiler to a particular choice when we 
have to, IMHO. So, unless anyone gives another reason not to, I will
send another patch with your warnings fixed.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 15:25 [PATCH] Fix msr register allocation Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-30 15:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-07-30 16:35   ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa [this message]
2007-07-30 19:59     ` Andi Kleen

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