Thanks Peter.
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 02:49:11PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/01/15 14:18, Sinclair Yeh wrote:
> > These macros will be used by multiple VMWare modules for handling
> > host communication.
>
> > + __asm__ __volatile__ ("inl %%dx" : \
>
> This is odd at best; the standard assembly form of this instruction is:
>
> inl (%dx),%eax
Ok, I'm not sure why this worked and compiled before. Fixed.
>
> Also, we don't need the underscored forms of asm and volatile for kernel
> code.
>
> > + __asm__ __volatile__ ("movq %13, %%rbp;" \
> > + "cld; rep outsb; " \
> > + "movq %%rbp, %6" : \
>
> cld shouldn't be necessary here, DF=0 is part of the normal ABI environment.
>
> You also don't save/restore %rbp here, but you do below? Seems very odd.
Good catch. Fixed.
>
> It might be better do so something like:
>
> +#define VMW_PORT_HB_OUT(in1, in2, port_num, magic, \
> + eax, ebx, ecx, edx, si, di, bp) \
> +({ \
> + __asm__ __volatile__ ("xchgq %6, %%rbp;" \
> + "cld; rep outsb; " \
> + "xchgq %%rbp, %6" : \
> + "=a"(eax), \
> + "=b"(ebx), \
> + "=c"(ecx), \
> + "=d"(edx), \
> + "+S"(si), \
> + "+D"(di), \
> + "+r"(bp) : \
> + "a"(magic), \
> + "b"(in1), \
> + "c"(in2), \
> + "d"(port_num) : \
> + "memory", "cc"); \
> +})
This is great. Changed.
Updated patch set incoming.
Sinclair
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