linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/asm: add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to <asm/asm.h>

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:47:27 -0700
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] x86/asm: add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument
 registers to <asm/asm.h>

On 06/13/18 14:05, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> i386 and x86-64 uses different registers for arguments; make them
> available so we don't have to #ifdef in the actual code.
> 
> Native size and specified size (q, l, w, b) versions are provided.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

I still object to Suggested-by: here.  Sedat did a correction, which is
a Reviewed-by:, but unless I'm completely out to sea, there was no
suggestion on Sedat's part of this; and I had certainly not seen it when
I wrote the code.

	-hpa