linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] i386: bitops: Rectify bogus "Ir" constraints

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Message-ID: <46A4EDDD.7010309@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:05:17 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, jh@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] i386: bitops: Rectify bogus "Ir" constraints

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Whoa, thanks for explaining that to me -- I didn't know, obviously. I had
>> just written a test program that used "Ir" with an automatic variable
>> defined in the inline function (as is the case with these bitops) and
>> observed that even when I gave > 32 values, it would still work -- hence
>> my conclusion.
>>
>> However, the patch still stands, does it not? [ I will modify the
>> changelog, obviously. ] The thing is that we don't want to limit
>> @nr to <= 31 in the first place, or am I wrong again? :-)
> 
> These bit operations only allow 8 bit immediates, so 0..255 would
> be correct. N might work from the 4.1 docs, but I don't know if it works 
> in all old supported gccs (3.2+)
> 
> However I is definitely not wrong and most bit numbers are small anyways.
> 

"I" is correct.  The Intel documentation on this is highly confusing
(and has bugs in it), but it does unambiguously state:

"Some assemblers support immediate bit offsets larger than 31 by using
the immediate bit offset field in combination with the displacement
field in the memory operand ... The processor will ignore the high-order
bits if they are not zero."  AMD processors might be different for all I
know.

So unless gas is capable of doing this transformation (and it's not as
of binutils-2.17.50.0.6) "I" is what's needed here.

	-hpa

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