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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Borislav Petkov' <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>, 'Dave Jiang' <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 1/5] x86/asm: Carve out a generic movdir64b() helper for general usage
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:25:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba7e555d0dea42eb97d8b08df69b3191@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200924110207.GE5030@zn.tnic>

> > No, that just says the asm uses the value of the pointer.
> > Not what it points to.
> 
> Err, no, it is *exactly* what it points to that is important here and
> you're telling the compiler that the instruction will read that much
> memory through the pointer.

You need to use an "m" constraint for that.
A 'register' constraint just requires the value of the address
to be valid.

Look at the asm output from the example code I posted.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <160090233730.44288.4446779116422752486.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com>
2020-09-23 23:10 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] dmaengine: idxd: Add shared workqueue support Dave Jiang
2020-09-23 23:11 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] dmaengine: idxd: Clean up descriptors with fault error Dave Jiang
2020-09-23 23:11 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] dmaengine: idxd: Add ABI documentation for shared wq Dave Jiang
     [not found] ` <160090264332.44288.7575027054245105525.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com>
2020-09-24  8:24   ` [PATCH v5 1/5] x86/asm: Carve out a generic movdir64b() helper for general usage David Laight
2020-09-24 10:15     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-24 10:42       ` David Laight
2020-09-24 11:02         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-24 11:25           ` David Laight [this message]
2020-09-24 14:07       ` Michael Matz
2020-09-24 13:07   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-24 13:27     ` David Laight
2020-09-24 15:07     ` Dave Jiang

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