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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Xen-devel" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalemp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3 of 7] x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:09:18 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901291909.18929.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <138b9e1650b385d5ac9d.1233182103@abulafia.goop.org>

On Thursday 29 January 2009 09:05:03 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The clobber is trying to say that anything except RDI is available for
> clobbering, but actually clobbers everything.  This hasn't mattered
> because the clobbers were basically ignored, but subsequent patches
> will rely on them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Hmm, did we never have the deliberate-clobbering debug code for 64 bit?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28 22:35 [PATCH 0 of 7] x86/paravirt: optimise pvop calls and register use Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 1 of 7] xen: move remaining mmu-related stuff into mmu.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 2 of 7] x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-29  8:05   ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-29  9:26     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-29 10:46     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 3 of 7] x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-29  8:39   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-01-29  9:28     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 4 of 7] x86/paravirt: selectively save/restore regs around pvops calls Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-29  8:47   ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-29  9:30     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-30  0:27       ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 5 of 7] x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressure Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-06  7:28   ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-06 16:37     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 6 of 7] x86/paravirt: implement PVOP_CALL macros for callee-save functions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-28 22:35 ` [PATCH 7 of 7] x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etc Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-29  7:14 ` [PATCH 0 of 7] x86/paravirt: optimise pvop calls and register use H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-29  9:51   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-31  5:04     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-31  7:16       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-31 22:43         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-31  7:17       ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/paravirt: don't restore second return reg Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-31  7:18       ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/vmi: fix interrupt enable/disable/save/restore calling convention Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-01-31 16:12       ` [PATCH 0 of 7] x86/paravirt: optimise pvop calls and register use Ingo Molnar
2009-01-31 17:00         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-04  2:10         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-04  2:16           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-04 14:26             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-04 17:06               ` Ingo Molnar

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