Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Readd rdmsrl_safe

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:06:13PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > RDMSR for 64bit values with exception handling.
> > > 
> > > Makes it easier to deal with 64bit valued MSRs. The old 64bit code
> > > base had that too as checking_rdmsrl(), but it got dropped somehow. 
> > 
> > Yup, no users.
> > 
> > > +#define rdmsrl_safe(msr,p) \
> > > +	({ int __err; *(p) = native_read_msr_safe(msr, &__err); __err; })
> > > +
> > 
> > static inline please
> 
> Well all of paravirt.h uses macros. I did the same for consistency.

consistency ?

> If you want inlines it would be better to just convert it all in one
> go (but please only after this patch was applied)

Of course. We don't want to burden work on your shoulders.

Thanks

	tglx
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