On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:10, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
> Subject: Use symbolic constants in inline assembly
>
> This patch replaces several of the %0/%1 uses in x86-64 inline assembly
> with symbolic names (this is a new gcc 3.x feature, but that's ok now).
> This tends to, imo, make the inline assembly a lot more readable, and
> for sure it's less error prone in terms of finding which %<number>
> corresponds with which variable.
At least for two arguments i don't really see the value, but ok.
> objdump -d of the vmlinux before and after the patch is the same; also
> boot tested.
You should do i386 too then; one reason I didn't touch bitops
for example was to keep the code more similar.
> static inline void set_cr4(unsigned long cr4)
> {
> - asm volatile("mov %0,%%cr4" :: "r" (cr4) : "memory");
> + asm volatile("mov %[cr4],%%cr4" :: [cr4] "r" (cr4) : "memory");
I'm not sure that's really an improvement for example.
-Andi
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