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Message-Id: <200907301251.46635.lkml@morethan.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:51:44 -0500
From:	"Michael S. Zick" <lkml@...ethan.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Uni-processor interrupt state preservation.

On Thu July 30 2009, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>  > If it does, then that is the answer to my question -
>  > Link to the ABI document please.
> 
> www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf:
> 
>    Registers %ebp, %ebx, %edi, %esi, and %esp ‘‘belong’’ to the cal-
>    ling function. In other words, a called function must preserve these
>    registers’ values for its caller.
> 
> 

Super!

Should not be too big a job to make sure that is indeed happening as expected.
Most uses of this function dispatcher are not built in Uni-processor builds.
Only a small handful of references.

Thanks,
Mike
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