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Message-ID: <48A6EC77.8080904@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:04:23 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 : support atomic ops with 64 bits integer values
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> x86_64 add/sub atomic ops does not seems to accept integer values bigger
> than 32 bits as immediates. Intel's add/sub documentation specifies they
> have to be passed as registers.
This is correct; this is in fact true for all instructions except "mov".
Whether it's sign- or zero-extending is sometimes subtle, but not in
these cases.
Do you happen to know if this is a manifest bug in the current kernel
(i.e. if there is anywhere we're using more than ±2 GB as a constant to
these functions?)
Either way, I'll queue this up to tip:x86/urgent if Ingo hasn't already
since this is a pure bug fix.
-hpa
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