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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3 of 7] x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:09:18 +1030
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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.