x86, doc: Update uaccess.h comment to reflect clang changes

Update comment in uaccess.h to reflect the changes for clang support:
gcc only cares about the base register (most architectures don't
encode the size of the operation in the operands like x86 does, and so
it is treated effectively like a register number), whereas clang tries
to enforce the size -- but not for register pairs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377803585-5913-3-git-send-email-dl9pf@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
index f715fee40821..5838fa911aa0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -153,11 +153,14 @@ __typeof__(__builtin_choose_expr(sizeof(x) > sizeof(0UL), 0ULL, 0UL))
  * Careful: we have to cast the result to the type of the pointer
  * for sign reasons.
  *
- * The use of %edx as the register specifier is a bit of a
+ * The use of _ASM_DX as the register specifier is a bit of a
  * simplification, as gcc only cares about it as the starting point
  * and not size: for a 64-bit value it will use %ecx:%edx on 32 bits
  * (%ecx being the next register in gcc's x86 register sequence), and
  * %rdx on 64 bits.
+ *
+ * Clang/LLVM cares about the size of the register, but still wants
+ * the base register for something that ends up being a pair.
  */
 #define get_user(x, ptr)                                                \
 ({                                                                      \