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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net,
	peterz@infradead.org, w@1wt.eu, mingo@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de,
	dvlasenk@redhat.com, brgerst@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:23:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DA1DCE.60401@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-47edb65178cb7056c2eea0b6c41a7d8c84547192@git.kernel.org>

On 08/23/2015 04:45 AM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Commit-ID:  47edb65178cb7056c2eea0b6c41a7d8c84547192
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/47edb65178cb7056c2eea0b6c41a7d8c84547192
> Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:14:40 -0700
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 13:25:38 +0200
> 
> x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function
> 
> As of cf991de2f614 ("x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl_safe() a
> function"), wrmsrl_safe is a function, but wrmsrl is still a
> macro.  The wrmsrl macro performs invalid shifts if the value
> argument is 32 bits. This makes it unnecessarily awkward to
> write code that puts an unsigned long into an MSR.
> 

Looking at this: where do you see an invalid shift?  Everywhere I can
see we do the proper casting.  Still not side effect free, though.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-23 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 19:14 [PATCH v2] x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-23 19:14 ` [PATCH v2] x86/entry/32: Remove duplicate initialization of tss.ss1 Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-23 11:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-23 15:43     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-24  6:48       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-23 11:45 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-23 19:23   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-08-24 18:11     ` Andy Lutomirski

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