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src/arch/x86/isa/insts/general_purpose/input_output/general_io.py
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    You're changing the behavior of these microops, and that's not ok because 
these are used to talk to devices. These are nonspeculative on purpose, and I'm 
pretty sure making them speculative breaks the O3 FS regression. Have you run 
the regressions?


- Gabe


On 2011-10-30 18:22:08, Nilay Vaish wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-10-30 18:22:08)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Summary
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> X86 ISA: Change definitions of locked instructions
> This patch is for changing the defintion of locked instructions. These
> should behave as memory barriers and should be executed in a non speculative
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> Diffs
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>   src/arch/x86/isa/insts/general_purpose/input_output/general_io.py 
> dd77c8d0a93e 
>   src/arch/x86/isa/insts/general_purpose/input_output/string_io.py 
> dd77c8d0a93e 
>   src/arch/x86/isa/microops/ldstop.isa dd77c8d0a93e 
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> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/897/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Nilay
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