Re: asm-x86/msr.h for sanitized headers: clean it or punt it

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:49:27PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Use __asm__ and __volatile__ in code that is exported to userspace.  Wrap
> kernel functions with __KERNEL__ so they get scrubbed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/asm-x86/msr.h b/include/asm-x86/msr.h
> index ba4b314..664a2fa 100644
> --- a/include/asm-x86/msr.h
> +++ b/include/asm-x86/msr.h
>...
>  #define rdtscp(low,high,aux) \
> -     asm volatile (".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9" : "=a" (low), "=d" (high), "=c" (aux))
> +     __asm__ __volatile__ (".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9" : "=a" (low), "=d" (high), "=c" (aux))
>  
>  #define rdtscll(val) do { \
>       unsigned int __a,__d; \
> -     asm volatile("rdtsc" : "=a" (__a), "=d" (__d)); \
> +     __asm__ __volatile__("rdtsc" : "=a" (__a), "=d" (__d)); \
>       (val) = ((unsigned long)__a) | (((unsigned long)__d)<<32); \
>  } while(0)
>  
>  #define rdtscpll(val, aux) do { \
>       unsigned long __a, __d; \
> -     asm volatile (".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9" : "=a" (__a), "=d" (__d), "=c" (aux)); \
> +     __asm__ __volatile__ (".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9" : "=a" (__a), "=d" (__d), "=c" (aux)); \
>       (val) = (__d << 32) | __a; \
>  } while (0)
>...

How is this part of the kernel<->userspace interface?

Unless I miss anything this sounds more like userspace abusing kernel 
headers as a utility library?

cu
Adrian

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