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Message-ID: <20071113194550.GA4400@Krystal>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:45:50 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/8] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization
* H. Peter Anvin (hpa@...or.com) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>>> - Use "=g" constraint for char immediate value inline assembly.
>>>
>>> "=g" is the same as "=rmi" which is inherently bogus. In your actual
>>> code you use "=r", the correct constraint is "=q".
>> q
>> Any register accessible as rl. In 32-bit mode, a, b, c, and d; in
>> 64-bit mode, any integer register. I am worried that "=q" might exclude
>> the si and di registers in 32-bit mode.
>> What exactly is wrong with "=r" ?
>
> For "char" (8-bit) values, sp/bp/si/di are illegal in 32-bit mode.
>
> Hence "=q".
>
Ah! yep, I see, so we say:
1 byte : "=q"
2 bytes : "=r"
4 bytes : "=r"
8 bytes : "=r"
? (si and di appear to be legal for 2 and 4 bytes in 32-bit mode)
> -hpa
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Mathieu Desnoyers
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