From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:03:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150803110335.GC26265@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150803090807.GG25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For those of us suffering OCDs and all, its a good change though. The
> alfabet song does go: A, B, C, D etc.. after all. Not: A, C, D, B ...
... except that x86 encoding orders regs like it was originally: AX,
CX, DX, BX, ... Don't ask me why - looks like someone thought that the
C (count) and D (double precision - AX extension) registers were more
important than B (base).
Or someone was simply illiterate.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-03 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-03 8:10 [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh
2015-08-03 9:03 ` Alexander Shishkin
2015-08-03 9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-03 9:44 ` Alexander Shishkin
2015-08-04 1:02 ` Takao Indoh
2015-08-03 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-08-04 1:09 ` Takao Indoh
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