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Message-ID: <20080110124041.GA15156@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:40:41 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove ifdef from step.c
* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> @@ -148,11 +148,7 @@ static void write_debugctlmsr(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long val)
> if (child != current)
> return;
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> - wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, val);
> -#else
> wrmsr(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, val, 0);
> -#endif
doesnt this break 64-bit? 'val' is 64-bit, but wrmsr truncates it to
32-bit? [while wrmsrl() kept the full 64 bits]
Ingo
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