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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: zach@vmware.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, chrisl@vmware.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pratap@vmware.com,
	Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/5 more-asm-cleanup
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:47:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F165BC.9030504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508040043.j740h4wB004166@zach-dev.vmware.com>

zach@vmware.com wrote:
> Some more assembler cleanups I noticed along the way.

> Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c	2005-08-03 15:18:18.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c	2005-08-03 15:19:39.000000000 -0700
> @@ -82,16 +82,12 @@
>   */
>  static int __devinit num_cpu_cores(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>  {
> -	unsigned int eax;
> +	unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
>  
>  	if (c->cpuid_level < 4)
>  		return 1;
>  
> -	__asm__("cpuid"
> -		: "=a" (eax)
> -		: "0" (4), "c" (0)
> -		: "bx", "dx");
> -
> +	cpuid(4, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>  	if (eax & 0x1f)
>  		return ((eax >> 26) + 1);

Reject!  This is a bogus patch; Intel's CPUID level 4 has a nonstandard 
dependency on ECX (idiots...) and therefore this needs special handling.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-04  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04  0:43 [PATCH] 1/5 more-asm-cleanup zach
2005-08-04  0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-08-04  3:06   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-04  6:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-04  3:33   ` Zachary Amsden

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