linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: collapse the various size-dependent percpu accessors together

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Message-ID: <4846725D.4090607@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:49 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: collapse the various size-dependent percpu accessors
 together

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> We can use gcc's %z modifier to emit the appropriate size suffix for
> an instruction, so we don't need to duplicate the asm statement for
> each size.

Nah, it's a disaster.  Drop this one.

    J
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