Re: [PATCH -mm] i386 syscall opcode reordering (pipelining)

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue Jun 13 2006 - 18:14:08 EST


On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:11 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > is anybody actually EVER using those???
> > I would think not....
>
> Probably not. The _syscallN() macros are broken for the general case
> on any 32-bit architecture, since they can't handle multiregister
> arguments.

In the -mm tree they're no longer visible outside ifdef __KERNEL__.

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dwmw2

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