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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:18:29 +0100
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
CC: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dpreed@...d.com,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, pavel@....cz,
andi@...stfloor.org, rol@...917.net,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, david@...idnewall.com,
hpa@...or.com, john@...ffel.org, linux-os@...logic.com
Subject: Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed
On 12-12-07 06:23, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:31:18AM +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
>> asm volatile ("rdtsc": "=A" (tsc));
>
> rdtsc returns a 64-bit value in two 32-bit regs, you need to do
>
> inline unsigned long long rdtsc(void)
> {
> unsigned int lo, hi;
> asm volatile ("rdtsc": "=a" (lo), "=d" (hi));
> return (unsigned long long)hi << 32 | lo;
> }
>
> as in msr.h, otherwise you'll only be looking at the value in %rax.
On 32-bit, "=A" is edx:eax. Not sure what the point is in not letting it be
that on 64-bit in fact, but yes, the thing should be compiled as 32-bit.
Rene.
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