Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>     
>>> We can use gcc's %z modifier to emit the appropriate size suffix for
>>> an instruction, so we don't need to duplicate the asm statement for
>>> each size.
>>>       
>> Nah, it's a disaster.  Drop this one.
>>     
>
> hm, what's the problem with it? What you are trying to do here looks 
> like a nice cleanup - assuming it results in the same instructions 
> emitted ;-)

Yes, would have been lovely.  But gcc emits junk:

  CC      arch/x86/xen/enlighten.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:637: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_vcpu(%rip),%rax'
{standard input}:655: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_vcpu(%rip),%rax'
{standard input}:671: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_vcpu(%rip),%rax'
{standard input}:682: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_vcpu(%rip),%rax'
{standard input}:783: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__pda+8(%rip),%rbx'
{standard input}:834: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_mc_irq_flags(%rip),%rdi'
{standard input}:901: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__pda+8(%rip),%rbx'
{standard input}:978: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_mc_irq_flags(%rip),%rdi'
{standard input}:1064: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__pda+8(%rip),%rbx'
{standard input}:1110: Error: no such instruction: `movll %gs:per_cpu__xen_mc_irq_flags(%rip),%rdi'
...
  CC      arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:75: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movs'
(all over the place)


I tried a version to do 64-bit accesses with an explicit "movq" to solve 
the "movll" problem, but it generates "movs" on occasion and that was 
the point I gave up.

    J
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