From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:58:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D55AEC.1090205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154832963.29151.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> You mean the l and ll variants? The 64 bit variants are rdmsrl and
> rdtscll, not to be confused with rdtscl, which returns the lower 32
> bits. This confusion caused the x86_64 bug in gameport.c which the
> patch comment mentioned (at least, seems to be a bug to me).
>
> See why I want to fix these names?
>
> So if you would prefer u64 rdtsc64(), u32 rdtsc_low(), u64 rdmsr64(int
> msr), u32 rdmsr_low(int msr), I can convert everyone to that, although
> it's a more invasive change...
rdmsrl is really misnamed. It should have been rdmsrq to be consistent,
and have rdmsrl return the low 32 bits.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-06 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-06 2:38 ` [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 2:56 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 2:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-06 3:09 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 3:49 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 3:52 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 14:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 2:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-07 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 11:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 12:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 13:18 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 13:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-07 15:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 15:19 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-07 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 16:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 16:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 19:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-14 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-07 11:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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