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author | Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com> | 2008-10-17 01:25:07 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-28 11:47:08 -0400 |
commit | d4f1b10365d4f03dd802433e0014cf503e6e930c (patch) | |
tree | a9ef48577063c7ab7f4e407bf08f2d742259dbd1 /arch/x86 | |
parent | 2011a067281565494494aee194ca5081e52d6c3f (diff) |
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')
-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) | |||
22 | } | 22 | } |
23 | 23 | ||
24 | /* | 24 | /* |
25 | * i386 calling convention returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, while | 25 | * both i386 and x86_64 returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, but gcc's "A" |
26 | * x86_64 returns at rax. Also, the "A" constraint does not really | 26 | * constraint has different meanings. For i386, "A" means exactly |
27 | * mean rdx:rax in x86_64, so we need specialized behaviour for each | 27 | * edx:eax, while for x86_64 it doesn't mean rdx:rax or edx:eax. Instead, |
28 | * architecture | 28 | * it means rax *or* rdx. |
29 | */ | 29 | */ |
30 | #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 | 30 | #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 |
31 | #define DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high) unsigned low, high | 31 | #define DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high) unsigned low, high |