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H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...>
Cc: <akpm@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Andi Kleen <andi@...>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...>, <akpm@...>
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Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization (updated)
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 6:33 pm
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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> > Hrm, since even the nmi-safe version supports REX-prefixed instructions, > there is no need for an =q constraint on single-byte immediate values > anymore. (thanks to your "discard" section used in the nmi-safe version) >
WRONG! Using =r for single-byte values is incorrect for 32-bit code -- that would permit %spl, %bpl, %sil, %dil which are illegal in 32-bit mode. That is not the incorrect bit, it's the description that is confused. -hpa --
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[patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
, Mathieu Desnoyers
, (Wed Apr 9, 11:08 am)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
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, (Wed Apr 9, 2:01 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization (updat...
, Mathieu Desnoyers
, (Wed Apr 9, 4:21 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization (updat...
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Wed Apr 9, 6:33 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization (updat...
, Mathieu Desnoyers
, (Wed Apr 9, 7:15 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
, Mathieu Desnoyers
, (Wed Apr 9, 3:08 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
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, (Wed Apr 9, 6:33 pm)
Re: [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
, Mathieu Desnoyers
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