On 08/30/2009 01:29 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Ok, what do we want actually? We have rdmsr_safe and rdmsrl_safe where > the last one engineers the 2 u32s into a u64. My gut feeling would opt > for the 2 32bit values instead of one 64bit since they're naturally > returned into %eax:%edx. And in the most cases we need only one of the > values. However, the MSRs themselves are 64bit... Hmmm... > The 2x32 bit interface is the legacy interface. It turned out to be a bad idea, but it's hard to clean up all the users. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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