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author | Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com> | 2008-10-17 07:25:07 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-28 16:47:08 +0100 |
commit | d4f1b10365d4f03dd802433e0014cf503e6e930c (patch) | |
tree | a9ef48577063c7ab7f4e407bf08f2d742259dbd1 /arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | |
parent | Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into x86/doc (diff) | |
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x86: clean up comments wrt. rd{msr|tsc|pmc}
The rdmsr instruction(et al) for i386 and x86-64 are semantically same.
The only difference is how gcc interpret constraint "A" for these targets.
Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h index 46be2fa7ac26..478a9245aae1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h @@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ static inline unsigned long long native_read_tscp(unsigned int *aux) } /* - * i386 calling convention returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, while - * x86_64 returns at rax. Also, the "A" constraint does not really - * mean rdx:rax in x86_64, so we need specialized behaviour for each - * architecture + * both i386 and x86_64 returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, but gcc's "A" + * constraint has different meanings. For i386, "A" means exactly + * edx:eax, while for x86_64 it doesn't mean rdx:rax or edx:eax. Instead, + * it means rax *or* rdx. */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 #define DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high) unsigned low, high |