linux-kernel - Re: Valgrinding the kernel?

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Message-ID: <20070706210958.GA13291@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:09:58 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Dan Kegel <dank@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Walsh <rjwalsh@...ables.org>
Subject: Re: Valgrinding the kernel?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:51:27PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The virtual CPU code has been competely rewritten since then.  If its a 
> non-gcc generated instruction, its possible the new code 
> parser/generator hasn't been taught to deal with it.

It's not from gcc - it's from the i386 bitops.h:

static inline int find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size)
{
	int d0, d1, d2;
	int res;

	if (!size)
		return 0;
	/* This looks at memory. Mark it volatile to tell gcc not to move it around */
	__asm__ __volatile__(
		"movl $-1,%%eax\n\t"
		"xorl %%edx,%%edx\n\t"
		"repe; scasl\n\t"
		"je 1f\n\t"
		"xorl -4(%%edi),%%eax\n\t"
		"subl $4,%%edi\n\t"
		"bsfl %%eax,%%edx\n"
		"1:\tsubl %%ebx,%%edi\n\t"
		"shll $3,%%edi\n\t"
		"addl %%edi,%%edx"
		:"=d" (res), "=&c" (d0), "=&D" (d1), "=&a" (d2)
		:"1" ((size + 31) >> 5), "2" (addr), "b" (addr) : "memory");
	return res;
}

				Jeff

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