On 09/06/2020 17.01, Pierre Morel wrote: > > > On 2020-06-09 09:09, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 08/06/2020 10.12, Pierre Morel wrote: >>> Provide some definitions and library routines that can be used by > > ...snip... > >>> +static inline int ssch(unsigned long schid, struct orb *addr) >>> +{ >>> + register long long reg1 asm("1") = schid; >>> + int cc; >>> + >>> + asm volatile( >>> + " ssch 0(%2)\n" >>> + " ipm %0\n" >>> + " srl %0,28\n" >>> + : "=d" (cc) >>> + : "d" (reg1), "a" (addr), "m" (*addr) >> >> Hmm... What's the "m" (*addr) here good for? %3 is not used in the >> assembly code? > > addr is %2 > "m" (*addr) means memory pointed by addr is read > >> >>> + : "cc", "memory"); >> >> Why "memory" ? Can this instruction also change the orb? > > The orb not but this instruction modifies memory as follow: > orb -> ccw -> data > > The CCW can be a READ or a WRITE instruction and the data my be anywhere > in memory (<2G) > > A compiler memory barrier is need to avoid write instructions started > before the SSCH instruction to occur after for a write > and memory read made after the instruction to be executed before for a > read. Ok, makes sense now, thanks! >>> +static inline int msch(unsigned long schid, struct schib *addr) >>> +{ >>> + register unsigned long reg1 asm ("1") = schid; >>> + int cc; >>> + >>> + asm volatile( >>> + " msch 0(%3)\n" >>> + " ipm %0\n" >>> + " srl %0,28" >>> + : "=d" (cc), "=m" (*addr) >>> + : "d" (reg1), "a" (addr) >> >> I'm not an expert with these IO instructions, but this looks wrong to me >> ... Is MSCH reading or writing the SCHIB data? > > MSCH is reading the SCHIB data in memory. So if it is reading, you don't need the "=m" (*addr) in the output list, do you? You should rather use "m" (*addr) in the input list instead? Thomas